Rosemary Kilkenny believes that the work she has been doing at her alma mater – Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA, where she is the first Black woman to have been elevated to a leadership role – on ensuring that there is inclusivity the university’s faculty and staff is impactful and that success is due to the “significant grounding” she had in Guyana as a child.
Kilkenny was in fourth form at the Bishops’ High School when she left Guyana. Her parents, the late James and Joyce Kilkenny, were Guyanese schoolteachers and as a result her entry into the world of higher education, albeit in a totally different dimension to that of her parents, was no surprise.
