Nolda Cira Römer-Kenepa (born 3 January 1953) is a Dutch historian and archivist. She served as acting governor of

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from 2013 to 2019.

Early years

Nolda Cira Kenepa was born in

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, 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 (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public university, public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in ...

. 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

. She qualified as a Higher Archivist from the Archiefschool,

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, 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

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. On 25 June 2013 the Acting

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, Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede, swore in her deputy Römer-Kenepa as second acting governor at

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. Römer-Kenepa was acting governor of Curaçao for six years. On 3 June 2019 the governor,

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, 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

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(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,

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and Nolda Römer-Kenepa were awarded Fellowships by the ICA.

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