Patricia Rodney
Patricia Rodney is a public health professional and the CEO of Partners in Health, Education and Development, a public health consultancy organization the works in the United States and internationally, and the chair of the board of directors of the nonprofit Walter Rodney Foundation, which she helped found in 2006 in memory of her husband. The foundation, which has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, promotes education, health, and human development from a social justice perspective, and aims to improve lives and develop human resources through scholarship. Personal life Before her life in advocacy, Rodney studied as a nurse. She married Guyanese scholar and social activist Walter Rodney in 1965, London, England, and had three children with him, Shaka, Kanini, and Asha, the first in England and the latter two in Tanzania. Walter Rodney Walter Rodney was a public speaker about the role of West Indians and other immigrants to England and their contributions to the United Kingdom. He campaigned for the working class rights and bottom-up community engagement, which he continued in Guyana, where he became a lecturer at the University of Guyana in 1974. The family was harassed constantly by police searches, extending to friends, relatives, and the children,