When it comes to the passionate advocacy for equity and level playing fields in sports, you’ll find no greater proponent than Dr. Sasha Sutherland, Executive Director of the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization (RADO). In her role she manages teams in the 18 Caribbean RADO member countries, ensuring that the international standards and compliance regulations are maintained for the benefit of all athletes competing in sport.
With a desire to increase awareness around issues of gender (in)equality, governance and doping in sport, Sasha is a part-time lecturer in The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus’ Masters Programme. She also serves as a Director of the Barbados Olympic Association Inc. where she is Chair of the Education Commission, a member of the Governance Commission and Sustainability Lead. Dr. Sutherland is also the Chair of the Barbados Girls Cricket Club, the first of its kind in the Caribbean, a former curriculum developer and lecturer in The Hague University of Applied Sciences’ International Sport Management Programme, and a former an Adjunct Professor and Visiting Scholar in Sport Management at George Mason University in Virginia.
Dr. Sutherland holds a BSc Psychology with Literatures in English, an Advanced Diploma in Sport Management and a PhD in Cultural Studies. Her research interests are gender and race in sport, and Anti-Doping. She has published work on menstrual health and Sport for Development, sexism and sport impacts on girls and women. Dr. Sutherland also holds certificates in football coaching and was a national football team manager, referee and Executive Committee Member at the Barbados Football Association and Hon. Secretary at the Barbados Hockey Federation.
She is a former triple-discipline athlete of Lawn Tennis, Football and Hockey and brings her knowledge of being an athlete, administrator and academic together to inform the world in any way she can.
