Biography

Kelesha Williams is a multi award-winning Journalist at Television Jamaica, a member of the RJRGLEANER Group in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a reporter/producer and news anchor for the station’s flagship programme- Prime Time News. While she covers a variety of beats, her work is mostly centered around climate change, biodiversity and other environmental issues. Over the years, she has gained international recognition for her work on climate change. It started in 2019 when she was awarded the prestigious United Nations RAF fellowship, and then the  Internews Earth Journalism Fellowship to cover COP15 in Montreal, Canada in 2022. Kelesha was also awarded Climate Tracker’s Climate Justice Fellowship in 2023 where she produced over seven news stories for Television Jamaica. Her news reports on climate adaptation and disasters were also featured in international organisations like CGTN London/ United States and  Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Germany.