Regional updates: North America and the Caribbean
The North America and the Caribbean Region is made up of several country and regional networks, including a variety of organisations in Canada, the United States, and throughout the Caribbean.
Board members
Jenn Clamen has been active in the Canadian and global sex worker rights movements since 2000. She began her work with the International Union of Sex Workers in London (UK) and in 2003 with Kara Gillies she co-founded the Canadian Guild for Erotic Labour. She has been involved with Stella, Montreal’s sex worker project, since 2002 and is a member of the Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers . In 2005, as the mobilisation coordinator at Stella, she co-coordinated Stella’s Forum XXX: A gathering of over 250 sex workers and allies from around the world. Jenn is also an educator in university and community settings, teaching on issues and realities affecting criminalised and marginalised communities, particularly on issues of human rights, public spaces and poverty, women in conflict with the law and community organising.
Cracey Annatola Fernandes, male sex worker former inmate of Guyana is an advocate for the past seven years in and out of prison and has been working with HIV+ Inmates, sex workers and MSM. Mr Fernandes is presently the President of the Guyana Sex Work Coalition (GSWC), Director in Caribbean (NSWP), Executive member on Nemesis Development Association (NDA), sitting member on the Caribbean Sex Work Coalition (CSWC) and recently appointed board member of Caribbean Vulnerable Committee Coalition (CVCC). Mr Fernandes is qualified as an HIV counselor and Peer Educator for the pass five years. He endorses the notion that sex work is work and that sex workers rights are as equally important as those rights of others. His passion is to be a leading advocate for legal reforms, zero tolerance on HIV/AIDS and stigma and discrimination and equality for all members or those who are assumed to be vulnerable.




