Dr. Michael T. François educational background includes a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a Master of Arts in Educational Technology, and a Ph.D. in Information Technology with a concentration in Security. He is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a certified RFID Professional. François is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of the Virgin Islands on the Albert A. Sheen Campus, located on the island of St. Croix. Before teaching at the university, he taught for four years at the Honeywell International Automation College in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. François has served as the Territory's assistant director for Career Technical Education and Adult Education. He also served as the group leader for the Advanced Automation Group at the St. Croix oil refinery, where he worked for nineteen years. He presently serves as the chair for the Virgin Islands Career and Technical Education Board. He is also a member of the Virgin Islands State Apprenticeship Council, the Virgin Islands Department of Education Community Advisory Council, and several other committees at the University of the Virgin Islands. Dr. François is also a veteran who served a total of nine years in the armed forces. He is dedicated to promoting cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, and stem. Dr. François participates in several youth programs to encourage cybersecurity and stem education in the Virgin Islands. He is a mentor for the UVI programming club Attack on Tech (AOT), which he organized. Dr. François is also a volunteer member for Gentlemen of STEAM and Cyber Patriot clubs on St. Croix.

Genevieve's overall desire is to have a direct, positive impact on the way the international community views the Caribbean and to ensure that the U.S. Virgin Islands assumes an essential role in the development of a new global perception of the region. The Senator is an internationally recognized speaker on political rights, the Secretary of the Vi Legislature and founder of The Whitaker Consultant Group, LLC (WCG)!

Creative, resourceful, results-oriented educator, specializing in program management and development, online education, and career and technical education. Expertise in training design, facilitation, education research, leadership development and performance management.

Jenny Hawkes, who moved to St Thomas in 2012, started with MBW in 2014 as their Executive Director.  MBW is a local non-profit focusing on vocational training and job placement for youth in the territory. Before moving to the beautiful USVI, Ms Hawkes owned a real estate and property management company in New Mexico as well as serving on the local school board and city council. Her passion has always been working with young people and helping them shape their path.  Ms Hawkes also is a local artist and enjoys capturing the iconic images in the Caribbean in her art.

Jones started his educational career at Julius E. Sprauve School on St. John but went off to St. Thomas for the rest of his education. He graduated from Ivanna Eudora Kean High School in 1977. When  Jones was ready for college, he left to stay with an aunt in the Bronx, New York, where he first attended Queensborough Community College before moving on to Herbert H. Lehman College, spending eight years earning an accounting communications degree. While attending college, Jones worked with mentally disabled people at a Bronx hospital. Around that time, his grandmother, Florence Richards, told Jones a story about his absentee father. She intercepted letters his father sent to his mother, Janet, shortly after Jones was born. His mother died when he was 15, and Jones didn't know much about his father. He had little to go on but knew his mother and father met while his mother worked in Puerto Rico. His father served in the U.S. Air Force. Jones said he managed to convince a worker at the Vital Statistics Bureau to turn over his father's information on maternity papers. That enabled him to trace his father, Earl S. Jones, to Missouri. The two reconnected, and Jones spent eight years living near his father while studying to be a financial planner and worked in law enforcement. After his father died in 2002, Jones began making plans to return to St. John. He moved in 2004 with his wife, Janice, and their two children, Nkosi, 12, and Ngozi, 10. He first worked as the special-education teacher at his alma mater, Sprauve School, before signing on with Caneel Bay Resort from 2005-07, then in spring of 2007, he signed on with the U.S. Department of Human Services and later the local Department of Human Services where he organized many social programs for the community.