FRESH MILK Team

Founding Director: Annalee Davis. Photo credit: Camilo Pachón, Stiftung Künstlerdof

Annalee Davis is a Visual Artist based in Barbados. Her hybrid art practice combines history and biography in her discussions of ‘post-plantation economies’. Drawing, walking, making (bush) teas, and growing living apothecaries, Davis’s practice suggests future strategies for repair and thriving while investigating the role of botanicals and living plots as ancestral sites of refusal, counter-knowledge, community, and healing. Her hybrid practice as a Caribbean activist includes her role as Founding Director of Fresh Milk and co-founder of Caribbean Linked, Tilting Axis, and Sour Grass, a group of pan-Caribbean artist-led initiatives working across the multi-lingual archipelago. Davis received her B.F.A from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and her M.F.A. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Email: a.davis@freshmilkbarbados.com

Director of Programmes: Katherine Kennedy. Photo credit: LOUD87

Katherine Kennedy is a Barbadian cultural practitioner. She graduated from Lancaster University, UK, and has taken part in exhibitions and residencies locally, regionally and internationally. Since 2011, she has worked for the Fresh Milk Art Platform, Barbados where is currently Director of Programmes, and has co-managed projects such as the former Caribbean Linked residency & exhibition programme and the Transoceanic Visual Exchange (TVE) video, film and new media triennial. Her writing has appeared in publications such Caribbean InTransit and Robert & Christopher Publishers’ A-Z of Caribbean Art. In 2021, she was selected for the CCCADI Afro-Caribbean Art Curatorial Fellowship. She is currently a part-time history/theory tutor in the Division of Fine Arts at Barbados Community College.

Email: k.kennedy@freshmilkbarbados.com

Content Specialist: Kayla Archer

Kayla Archer is a writer, researcher and cultural organiser from Barbados and based in Mexico City. She earned her Bachelors in International Studies with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean from Leiden University, and a diploma in Mexican Art History from the Centro de Arte Mexicano. She founded and leads an international writing collective called Orchestras of Awe/dacity, whose work is dedicated to advocating for the protection of the seabed in the face of the impending threat of deep-sea mining. Their work has been presented at various conferences and on view at the National Gallery of Jamaica, as part of the group show “Our Collective Seabed”, curated by Deep Currents Collective in July 2025.

In addition to working as content specialist for Fresh Milk, she works as head of gallery programming in the community-run cultural centre Mar de Lava, located in Coyoacán, CDMX, and volunteers for green art lab alliance (gala).

Email: freshmilksocials@gmail.com

Photographer: Dondré Trotman

Dondré Trotman is a Barbados-based photographer known for his award-winning conceptual work and distinctive creative style. He began his journey with the Photographic Association of the Cave Hill Campus (PHOTACC) as a photographer and Assistant Technical Coordinator. Today, he specializes in event, portrait, and conceptual photography, with a portfolio that includes collaborations with Caribbean designers and international media outlets. Dondré’s talents are his relaxed approach, eye for depth, and ability to bring abstract ideas to life.

Accountant: Ashok J. Merai FCA (Barbados), FCCA (UK), CPA, CGA (Canada)

Ashok Merai is a professional accountant with extensive experience in various sectors of business, including offshore reinsurance, audit and corporate governance. Born in Ndola, Zambia he articled with Coopers & Lybrand, earning his accounting designation in the process. He emigrated to Canada in 1988 and secured his Canadian designation thereafter. In 1996 he moved to Barbados to work with the international reinsurance subsidiary of Manulife, where he held the position of Chief Financial Officer. He retired in 2011 and now provides consulting services to clients and also volunteers his time to several charities. Ashok is the consulting accountant at Fresh Milk and has been instrumental in organizing our accounting and corporate records.

Board of Directors

Annalee Davis, Barbados – Artist & Founding Director, Fresh Milk
Dr. Natalie McGuire, Barbados – Social History Curator, The Barbados Museum & Historical Society
Rae Skinner, Barbados – Owner, Caribbean Brushstrokes Gallery