Angelique V. Nixon, Ph.D. is a Bahamas-born and raised, Trinidad-based queer writer, artist, scholar, and activist. Her research and creative work are available widely; she is the author of two books – the poetry and art collection titled Saltwater Healing and the scholarly award-winning book titled Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture. She is a sought-after speaker and facilitator on intersecting issues related to social and climate justice, migration, diverse genders and sexualities, and sexual rights and justice, among others.

Angelique has two decades of experience and leadership in community-based organizations and academic institutions. She is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago. And she is a working director of the feminist LGBTQI civil society organization CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice in Trinidad and Tobago, where she spearheads operations and resource mobilization, as well as various programs. Angelique is fiercely committed in all her work to intersectional queer feminist praxis, decolonial politics, climate and environmental justice, and Black liberation.