Rhoda Moy Crawford is the Member of Parliament for Manchester Central and the Minister
of State in the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information. She is the youngest
Minister of State and the first female Member of Parliament for the Constituency of
Manchester Central and the parish of Manchester.

Crawford hails from Mandeville, Manchester. She is a PHD Candidate, a graduate of Villa Road
Primary, Knox College High School, Shortwood Teachers’ College and the University of the
West Indies (Mona Campus). Miss Crawford holds a Masters of Education degree in
Educational Administration, a Bachelor’s Degree in Language Education and a Secondary
Education Diploma in English Language and English Literature.

Miss Crawford has assumed numerous positions of leadership, is the recipient of several
awards of excellence, chaired several leadership and community outreach committees,
coached the St. Maarten National Debating Team, hosted several radio programmes in Dutch
St. Maarten and has assumed lead roles in several plays locally and regionally.
Her Career in Education has seen her employed as a teacher of English Language and
Literature at Excelsior High School (Jamaica) and a teacher of English Language in several
schools in Dutch, St. Maarten.

At the international and regional levels, Miss Crawford has represented Jamaica at
conferences on matters of leadership, democracy, women empowerment, tourism and
economic development in the Peoples’ Republic of China, India, Argentina, the United
Kingdom, Canada, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
She has also represented St. Maarten at regional and international conferences which speak
to education reform and environmental initiatives in Barbados and the United States of
America. Ms. Crawford is the founder of the Get It Right Initiative, a campaign aimed at
developing rural communities in Jamaica. She continues to dedicate much of her pastime to various outreach projects