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Advocating for Rights, Amplifying Voices
JODI-ANN QUARRIE
The Only Caribbean Broadcaster
Who Is Also an International Human Rights Lawyer.
That is not a credential. That is a commitment.
When power needs to explain itself in the Caribbean, it sits across from Jodi-Ann Quarrie.
Every weekday evening, as Executive Producer and Anchor of Lead Story on CVM Television, she does what no other broadcaster in the region can: she holds governments, institutions, and decision-makers accountable — not with a journalism degree, but with an international human rights law practice built across three continents, two hemispheres, and more than a decade of work at the highest levels of the global legal system.
She does not call a lawyer. She is the lawyer.
"The broadcast is not separate from the legal work. It is the legal work — delivered nightly, in public, to the people who need it most."
What She Has Built
This is not a conventional career. It is a body of work with a single spine:
The law is for everyone. And she has spent her life proving it.
She is the first CARICOM attorney admitted to the LL.M. in International Human Rights Law at the University of Notre Dame. The first Caribbean and Jamaican attorney selected as a United Nations Fellow for People of African Descent in Geneva. The first CARICOM and Jamaican woman named a Rómulo Gallegos Fellow at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights — where she worked on over 180 cases across the Americas.
She contributed to the Caribbean Court of Justice's first human rights decision. She worked on the CARICOM Ten Point Plan for Reparatory Justice. She was commissioned by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin to audit sixty years of Caribbean death penalty jurisprudence. She serves as an Expert Contributor to the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law project. And she has been invited by Jamaica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade to contribute expert analysis to the country's Universal Periodic Review consultations before the UN Human Rights Council.
In 2025, Notre Dame Law School presented her with the Alvin McKenna Alumnus of the Year Award — and invited her to deliver the keynote address.
"I have operated at every level of the international human rights chain — from Geneva to Washington to the domestic consultation room in Kingston."
Every Evening. Live. On the Record.
First on Radio
She built her broadcast career at the largest media group in the English-speaking Caribbean — spending nearly a decade as Host and Producer of The Morning Agenda on Power 106 FM, part of the RJRGleaner Communications Group, where she turned a morning radio programme into one of Jamaica's most influential public accountability platforms, consistently moving government and civil society to action.
Then she moved to host the only daily news and current affairs show on Jamaican television.
As Executive Producer and Anchor of Lead Story on CVM Television, she hosts two of the network's most consequential programmes.
Lead Story — live, every weekday evening — is the daily engine of public accountability. And Lead Story Prime — the network's flagship programme — is where the issues that matter most get the depth they deserve. One hour. No shortcuts. The kind of journalism that changes what happens next.
Both are built on a single editorial mandate — the Jamaican Angle.
Every story, regardless of where it originates, must answer one question: what does this mean for Jamaica?
A climate agreement in Geneva. A shift in US immigration enforcement. A ruling from the Inter-American Court. By the time it reaches the Lead Story desk, it has been interrogated — legally, journalistically, and without mercy — for its direct consequence to Jamaica's economy, governance, and the daily lives of its citizens.
This is what a decade of international human rights practice looks like on television.
"The broadcast is not separate from the legal work. It is the legal work — delivered nightly, in public, to the people who need it most."
Then on TV
A Voice the World Has Recognised
Named among the Most Influential 100 Under 40 People of African Descent in the world — MIPAD, 2019
Alvin McKenna Alumnus of the Year — Notre Dame Law School, 2025
Distinguished Alumni — Norman Manley Law School, 2023
Featured Student Scholar — University of Notre Dame, 2017
Distinguished Past Student — St. Hugh's High School, 2020
Beyond the Desk
She has led the American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica as its CEO — the youngest person to do so — through a global pandemic. She has directed national advocacy campaigns at Jamaicans for Justice. She has served as Board Chair of Women's Media Watch Jamaica. She has walked Jamaican high school students through the Supreme Court and the Parish Court, teaching them that the law belongs to them.
She works in three languages — English. Spanish. Jamaican Creole.
The first is the language of institutions. The second carried her through the Americas. The third is the language of home — and she names it deliberately, because the people she does this work for speak it, and they deserve to be spoken to, not spoken at.
"I came home. I built something. And the work is nowhere near finished."
JODI-ANN QUARRIE Lawyer. Broadcaster. Advocate. Built in Jamaica. Heard everywhere it matters.
Work With Jodi-Ann
International legal expertise. Broadcast insight. Strategic leadership. Caribbean perspective. Global reach.
If you are building something that requires all of the above — let's talk.
My Dispatches
This is my space for my thoughts on matters related to human rights and personal development. Bring Blue Mountain coffee or some bush mint tea and take a read!
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