Nolda Cira Römer-Kenepa (born 3 January 1953) is a Dutch historian and archivist. She served as acting governor of
Curaçao from 2013 to 2019.
Early years
Nolda Cira Kenepa was born in
Willemstad
Willemstad ( , ; ; en, William Town, italic=yes) is the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was the capital of the Netherlands Antilles pr ...
, Curaçao, Netherlands, on 3 January 1953.
Her parents were Bicente Paulo Kenepa and Wilhelmina Ramona (Nucatia) Kenepa.
She studied modern history at the
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...
.
Her 1980 doctoral study was on ''Vrouwenleven op Curaçao: Laat achttiende eeuw en vroeg negentiende eeuw'' (Women's Lives in Curaçao: Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century).
In it she was one of the first to consider the marginalization of women in Curaçao during the slave period.
Enslaved women were doubly exploited due to their color and gender.
Career
From 1980 to 1988 Römer-Kenepa was a history researcher at the History Archives Center in
Curaçao.
She qualified as a Higher Archivist from the Archiefschool,
The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...
, in 1992.
She was deputy director of the History Archives Center from 1980 to 1990, when she became director of the center.
In 1991 she became coordinator of the working group on history in the Government Consultative Mechanism between Curaçao and the Netherlands.
She became a member of the government advisory board on Curaçao monuments in 1991.
In 2013 Römer-Kenepa was decorated as a Knight in the
Order of Orange-Nassau
The Order of Orange-Nassau ( nl, Orde van Oranje-Nassau, links=no) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands.
The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has ...
.
On 25 June 2013 the Acting
Governor of Curaçao
The governor of Curaçao ( nl, gouverneur van Curaçao; pap, gobernador di Kòrsou) is the representative on Curaçao of the Dutch head of state (King Willem-Alexander). The governor's duties are twofold: representing and guarding the general in ...
,
Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede
Adèle Pauline van der Pluijm-Vrede (born 1952) is a Curaçaoan politician who served as Acting Governor of Curaçao from October 10, 2010, to November 4, 2013. When ''then''-governor Frits Goedgedrag resigned for health reasons, Van der Pluijm-V ...
, swore in her deputy Römer-Kenepa as second acting governor at
Fort Amsterdam
Fort Amsterdam was a fort on the southern tip of Manhattan at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers. It was the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then English/British rule of the colony of New Netherland and subsequently th ...
.
Römer-Kenepa was acting governor of Curaçao for six years.
On 3 June 2019 the governor,
Lucille George-Wout
Lucille Andrea George-Wout (born 29 February 1950) is a Curaçaoan politician currently serving as the second governor of Curaçao since 4 November 2013.
Political career
George-Wout was a member of parliament for the Partido MAN in the Island C ...
, replaced her as acting governor by Michèle Russel-Capriles.
Römer-Kenepa was a member of the executive council of CARBICA, the Caribbean regional branch of the
International Council on Archives
The International Council on Archives (ICA; French: ''Conseil international des archives'') is an international non-governmental organization which exists to promote international cooperation for archives and archivists. It was set up in 1948, wi ...
(ICA) from 1994 to 2006.
She organized the International African Diaspora Congress in 2003 and the second Annual conference on the Preservation of Archives in Tropical Climates.
She was host of the International Conference of the Round Table on Archives (CITRA) in Curaçao] in 2006, and from 2008 to 2012 was vice-president (CITRA) of the ICA.
In November 2019
Simon Chu,
Adrian Cunningham and Nolda Römer-Kenepa were awarded Fellowships by the ICA.
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1953 births
Living people