Nadine Molloy-Young
This Portland native has undoubtedly championed the cause of education in Jamaica throughout the years. Molloy-Young was the 10th female leader and 46th President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) in 2010, where the association under her leadership would make waves on the international scene, especially when it came to women and education. She was a delegate to Education International’s First World Women’s Conference in Thailand as well as its sixth world congress in Cape Town, South Africa.
The former principal of Buff Bay High School in Portland also delivered the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) joint trade union statement on behalf of Education International — Public Service International — Inter Trade Union Confederation at the UNCSW 2011 event, From the Classroom to the Workplace – Positioning Women for Decent Work in the Knowledge Economy.
A former head girl of Marymount High School for Girls in St Mary, Molloy-Young is a two-time graduate of the University of the West Indies, Mona, with additional graduate qualification in secondary education administration from Andrews University in Michigan.
As the two-term president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools, she led a delegation on a three-day observation tour of principals of the Cuban secondary education system in 2008. Currently the principal of Ardenne High School in St Andrew, Molloy- Young is credited with starting the ongoing Canadian Student Exchange programme while at Buff Bay High, where Canadian students from Quebec spend a week with their Jamaican counterparts at their schools and their homes. The programme is also now being conducted at Ardenne.
