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Meet the Founder
Kevon Gareth Foderingham
Founder + Cultural Director East Yard Enterprises
Kevon Gareth Foderingham is a dynamic social entrepreneur, multidisciplinary artist, author, and podcaster, born and raised in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. With over 20 years of experience in marketing and communications across the hospitality, education, creative, and nonprofit sectors, he has built a career at the intersection of creativity and impact. He formerly served as Regional Marketing and Communications Manager for PSI Caribbean, the regional arm of the global health NGO Population Services International (PSI).
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A passionate development worker and arts practitioner, Kevon is the Founder and Cultural Director of East Yard Enterprises—an independent creative social enterprise committed to culture, commerce, and cross-cultural collaboration as tools for community development and innovation. Under his leadership, East Yard is being positioned as Arima’s Creative and Cultural Campus, with creative tourism offerings, delivering flagship initiatives such as the AMPLIFY Connect: Creative Social Enterprise Fellowship and Summit, and co-producing the Joki One x East Yard Mas Band—reimagining Sailor Mas through contemporary, fashionable, and reusable costume design
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Kevon’s creative journey spans visual art, film, fashion, mas, spoken word, and publishing. He has exhibited his artwork in Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the United States, and in 2019, curated Trinidad and Tobago’s National Contemporary Visual Art Exhibition at the National Academy for the Performing Arts during CARIFESTA XIV.
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Kevon co-edited and published What Matters (2024), a youth-authored anthology developed through East Yard’s For Common Good: Youth Arts Enrichment Program. His other works include his debut motivational book, Things I Learned in My Thirties (2022), its companion studio album Things I Learned, Vol. 1: Motivational Melodies, and his forthcoming poetry collection, Get Up and Get: Poems for Creatives, Changemakers and Entrepreneurs, to be published in 2026.​
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An alumnus of the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Kevon hosts AMPLIFY Connect: The Podcast, featuring conversations with changemakers from global exchange networks and the creative social enterprise ecosystem.
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His contributions to arts and civic life have earned him the Individual Civic Award from the Mayor of the Royal Chartered Borough of Arima (2023) and the inaugural Literary Voices of Arima Award (2024). In 2019, he curated Trinidad and Tobago’s National Contemporary Visual Art Exhibition at the National Academy for the Performing Arts during CARIFESTA XIV.
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Through visionary leadership, creative expression, and an unwavering commitment to purpose-driven innovation, Kevon Gareth Foderingham continues to inspire, amplify, and connect changemakers across the Caribbean and beyond.