This week we’re back to Borderless Building with Black Women in Real Estate. So far this year we’ve showcased the personal and professional journeys of Black women in careers spanning project design, development, investor relations and community engagement with experience from as far east as Japan to the western United States. This week we’re taking a grip down south--south east to be more precise with a finance professional doubling as a farmer. She truly embodies the spirit of land stewardship.
Chanell Henry is a British-Jamaican entrepreneur, with a background in investment operations across hedge funds and asset management in London. After several years working in finance, Chanell made the decision to channel her commercial and investment experience into agriculture, co-founding Clarendon Gold Limited - a 100-acre commercial orchard, with her father, Vendrys Henry.

Together, they are applying all of their crafts and learning all things commercial orchard farm in Clarendon, Jamaica, where their primary crop is ackee - Jamaica’s national fruit. All the while, they are also building the infrastructure, team and commercial relationships needed to develop a wider agricultural business. Self-funded with over £300,000 invested to date, Clarendon Gold is being built with a long-term vision spanning cultivation, processing, packaging and export.

Chanell’s journey reflects her commitment to connecting diaspora capital and expertise with productive opportunities in Jamaica, while contributing to local employment and the development of Jamaica’s agricultural value chain.

Where to find Chanell?
On the farm @ Clarendon Gold

What’s Chanell reading, watching and listening to?
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Educated: a memoir by Tara Westover
The Office
Michael, the movie

Other topics of interest:
South East London Flavour
About Clarendon, Jamaica
Jamaica’s Argo Parks Initiative
About Grace Kennedy
A documentary about Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa

Special Guest: Chanell Henry.