Amina is an award-winning Writer, Actress, Storyteller, Founder/Artistic Director, Ntukuma, and The Storytelling Foundation of Jamaica. She weaves tales from the loom of her practical knowledge of the Caribbean, and her life-skills as a mother, grandmother, educator, communication specialist, political scientist, social and cultural policy researcher/analyst and farmer. Her stories cover a range of issues affecting gender, the environment, children and the direction of human development.