Aché Abra­hams

“My moth­er and I have both been recog­nised by MI­PAD (Most In­flu­en­tial Peo­ple of African De­scent) in sup­port of the Unit­ed Na­tions’ Decade Ded­i­cat­ed to Peo­ple of African De­scent.We were both recog­nised for two com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories. This is the first time a moth­er and daugh­ter have both been recog­nised by MI­PAD and thus marks a mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion.

I was recog­nised un­der the cat­e­go­ry of ‘cul­ture and me­dia’ for the glob­al top 100 un­der 40 edi­tion, while my moth­er was recog­nised for the glob­al top 100 cre­atives edi­tion in 2021. We are both very proud to be rep­re­sent­ing T&T and the Caribbean re­gion in such an im­pact­ful space and are tru­ly grate­ful for the recog­ni­tion from MI­PAD and Mi­pa­di­ans glob­al­ly.

We will both be head­ing to New York in Sep­tem­ber to ac­cept my award and al­so par­take in the ac­tiv­i­ties hap­pen­ing dur­ing recog­ni­tion week. I am so ex­cit­ed and look­ing for­ward to be­ing part of many im­por­tant glob­al top­ics hap­pen­ing that week and al­so get­ting the chance to vis­it the Unit­ed Na­tions head­quar­ters, which has al­ways been a child­hood dream.”

Camille Selvon Abra­hams

“On hear­ing of Aché’s MI­PAD Award, I was ex­treme­ly ex­cit­ed for her, as I knew it would feed right in­to her de­sire to con­tin­ue her work on the world stage. My own ex­pe­ri­ence with the MI­PAD com­mu­ni­ty has shown me that it’s an in­cred­i­ble plat­form with a vast net­work of re­mark­able in­di­vid­u­als.

It opens doors to con­nec­tions across all walks of life, par­tic­u­lar­ly with­in Africa and the di­as­po­ra, of­fer­ing count­less op­por­tu­ni­ties for col­lab­o­ra­tion and ex­change.The fact that we both re­ceived this award in dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories speaks vol­umes about the sig­nif­i­cance of Aché’s work.

I feel deeply ho­n­oured to be mak­ing his­to­ry along­side my daugh­ter, to be the first moth­er-daugh­ter team to re­ceive such a pres­ti­gious ac­co­lade and to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go to­geth­er on the world stage.”

About MI­PAD

In sup­port of the In­ter­na­tion­al Decade for Peo­ple of African De­scent, pro­claimed by the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly res­o­lu­tion 68/237 and to be ob­served from 2015 to 2024, the Most In­flu­en­tial Peo­ple of African De­scent (MI­PAD) iden­ti­fies high achiev­ers of African de­scent in the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors from all around the world as a pro­gres­sive net­work of rel­e­vant ac­tors to join to­geth­er in the spir­it of recog­ni­tion, jus­tice, and de­vel­op­ment of Africa, its peo­ple on the con­ti­nent, and across its Di­as­po­ra.