ABOUT
Business Consultant. Foundation President. Diaspora Strategist.
Geneive Brown Metzger, LLD Hon. is Jamaica’s eighth Consul General in New York. She is the founder and President of the American Caribbean Maritime Foundation, the only entity of its kind exclusively focused on funding the education of aspiring Caribbean maritime professionals. She developed ACMF-CAREX the first maritime jobs board for Caribbean maritime professionals and workers. Her forty-year career spans diplomacy, corporate communications, foreign trade consulting, and government and community affairs. She is a Caribbean thought leader, diaspora strategist, trade policy analyst, and social-preneur. Her marketing communications firm, Geneive Brown Associates, was acquired by the global public relations agency, Ruder Finn (now Finn Partners) in 1991 and became the company’s Caribbean division, which she headed until 2000. She is also co-founder of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Union of Jamaican Alumnae Association, one of the largest Jamaican diaspora organizations in North America, and a founding member of Opera Ebony, the longest standing black opera company in the United States.
If you don’t handle life, life will surely handle you.
VICTOR SHERLOCK BROWN Sr.
ABOUT
Business Consultant. Foundation President. Diaspora Strategist.
Geneive Brown Metzger, LLD Hon. is Jamaica’s eighth Consul General in New York. She is the founder and President of the American Caribbean Maritime Foundation, the only entity of its kind exclusively focused on funding the education of aspiring Caribbean maritime professionals. She developed ACMF-CAREX the first maritime jobs board for Caribbean maritime professionals and workers. Her forty-year career spans diplomacy, corporate communications, foreign trade consulting, and government and community affairs. She is a Caribbean thought leader, diaspora strategist, trade policy analyst, and social-preneur. Her marketing communications firm, Geneive Brown Associates, was acquired by the global public relations agency, Ruder Finn (now Finn Partners) in 1991 and became the company’s Caribbean division, which she headed until 2000. She is also co-founder of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Union of Jamaican Alumnae Association, one of the largest Jamaican diaspora organizations in North America.
If you don’t handle life, life will surely handle you.
VICTOR SHERLOCK BROWN Sr.
She and her five siblings grew up in Crown Heights in Brooklyn, New York during the peak of the civil rights movement in the 1970s, which inspired her interest in political science and public service. A product of private girls school education in her native Jamaica, she describes the family’s move to America as being among the most challenging yet illuminating periods of her life. She reflects often on her father’s mantra, “If you don’t handle life, life will surely handle you”. “It reminds me that my life’s path is the one created by my decisions as much as my indecisions.” The second of Gladys and Victor Brown six children, she attended City University of New York and Columbia University earning a Bachelors and Masters, and was honored with an Honoris Causa Doctorate of Laws by the University of Technology in Jamaica. Dr. Brown Metzger is married to Stephen Metzger, PhD, a professional economist and economics professor. They have two grown daughters. She has one regret in life…her parents not being alive when she was appointed to the most important post of her career, that of Consul General of Jamaica, a job she accepted as much for them in honor of their struggle and accomplishment in raising and educating six children, as for herself.
She and her five siblings grew up in Crown Heights in Brooklyn, New York during the peak of the civil rights movement in the 1970s. A product of private girls school education in her native Jamaica, she describes the family’s move to America as being among the most challenging yet illuminating periods of her life. She reflects often on her father’s mantra, “If you don’t handle life, life will surely handle you”. “It reminds me that my life’s path is the one created by my decisions as much as my indecisions.” The second of Gladys and Victor Brown six children, she attended City University of New York and Columbia University earning a Bachelors and Masters, and was honored with an Honoris Causa Doctorate of Laws by the University of Technology in Jamaica. Dr. Brown Metzger is married to Stephen Metzger, PhD, a professional economist and economics professor. They have two grown daughters. She has one regret in life…her parents not being alive when she was appointed to the most important post of her career, that of Consul General of Jamaica, a job she accepted as much for them in honor of their struggle and accomplishment in raising and educating six children, as for herself.
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GENEIVE BROWN METZGER
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