Lo­cal au­thor and ac­tivist Aleeyah Ali has re­ceived in­ter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion for her work in ocean lit­er­a­cy through the Blue Thread ini­tia­tive, launched in late 2024 by UN­ESCO’s In­ter­gov­ern­men­tal Oceano­graph­ic Com­mis­sion.

The ini­tia­tive recog­nis­es in­di­vid­u­als who place ocean un­der­stand­ing at the cen­tre of glob­al sus­tain­abil­i­ty ef­forts. The se­lec­tion com­mit­tee said Ali’s work aligns with the Venice De­c­la­ra­tion, a glob­al call to ac­tion for ocean stew­ard­ship.

Ali said the recog­ni­tion strength­ens her ef­forts to in­spire the next gen­er­a­tion of ocean stew­ards across the Caribbean.