Copy Writer | Editor | Translator

Writing is one of my great pleasures in life. I write, edit and translate just about anything. Yes, please challenge me. I can craft a campaign, a funding proposal, or an article on just-about-anything; for business, leisure or artistic purposes. Whatever you need. Pick your style. I write for any audience; the board of directors, your next buyer, your toddler. As long as it is a text that is required in Dutch or English. And some Papiamentu.

So. How may I serve you? What can I wordsmith for you?


Ask me for:

Web content
News & press releases
Articles & columns
Letters
Speeches
Advertising copy
Brochures
Scripts & manuscripts
Business & marketing plans
Business reports & proposals
Resumes
Product instructions
Funding proposals
Blogs

but also:

Eulogies
Stories
Poetry
Lyrics
Love letters

Did I leave something out? Ask me for it anyway.

Whatever it is, I will gladly write it for you.

En Route to Curaçao

It has been a long time coming, but I'm back. For the past year and I half I have been back, living on my island, Curaçao. My mother was raised here, born in Surinam, but somehow it has always been this island that I felt in my blood rather than my Surinamese roots. So once again I am back, "happier than a pig in shit..."

I was born in Amsterdam, and raised in different parts of the Netherlands. Castricum, and then Tilburg, to be precise. As a child I was absolutely enchanted with the beach, the dunes and the woods of Castricum. Being a teenager in Tilburg was a bit tougher. So as soon as I graduated highschool I was back in Amsterdam, my first love. I love this small country, this former colonizing nation with its bricks, bicycles, and winters that usually last too long.


But that did not keep me from becoming homesick for Curaçao. One holiday was all it took, at age five. My second love. All the way through elementary school, the lyceum, the Free University of Amsterdam, I was homesick for Curaçao. Former colony with its iguanas, pan seiku and absolutely never ending summers.

Once I got older I found my way to the island more easily. Several times I lived on the island, worked on the island, loved the island, made it my own. But I always left. I wanted to do something with the island's colonial heritage. My dream was - is - to research how to make the painful parts of this heritage less painful, and the beautiful parts more joyful and empowering. But after my first and second time living on the island I realised that my Dutch Masters Degree did not provide me with the knowledge and tools that I needed. I drew too many blanks.

In 2007 I was accepted into graduate school at Florida International University, in Miami. In 2003 I had obtained my MA in Cultural Anthropology, my third big love. Now I returned to University to complete a PhD in Anthropology. Four years of South Beach, Brickel, Little Havana, FIU South Campus, Dolphin Highway; it was a great adventure.

At FIU I learned about the intricacies of race relations and racism, colonialism, African Diaspora, decolonization, creolization and silenced histories. Gradschool was more demanding than a pregnant woman, but it yielded all that I had looked for.

So here I am. I'm back, but this time without suitcases on the ready and plans to leave. I'm staying. With my brand new Warwarú ImageNation Foundation, which is geared at examining and addressing colonial heritage in all its many forms. And with a documentary project Sombra di Koló that examines how people experience race in Curaçao today. Stay tuned. It's gonna be good...

Who is Angela E. Roe

"You should start blogging," my sweetheart says. 

"First you start with a blog, then you create a website. That's how you market yourself."

I am a perfectionist. And I'm impatient. I had much rather switch it up and start with a hip, superbly designed, fully equipped website that reads like an encyclopedia of what goes on inside my head.

"Don't write too much," he says.

"Also, keep the template white, the font as simple as possible. That looks more serious."

He lost me again.

I want art. Color. Slick banners, fresh lay outs, dynamics, crisp animations jumping off your screen starting mini revolutions on your desk. Also I like those pastel palets that supposedly have been revamped from the 70s. And I like those faded instagram filters like Early Bird. Things just feel better if they look as if they took place 35 years ago...

BUT I am working on listening more often to people's advice. So here we go. I am blogging. Simple template.

The first question that is commonly answered in a new blog would probably be:

"Who is Angela E. Roe?"

The official version of this would be something like this:


Miss Roe is a researcher and anthropologist of Curaçaoan, Surinamese and Dutch descent. 

Roe lives in Curaçao, where she conducts a PhD research project for Florida International University, Miami. As anthropologist she is specialized in Caribbean culture, with a special focus on Curaçao. Her work pertains to race, decolonization, nation building, and colonial heritage.

Next to her academic work Roe is producer and event coordinator. In 2004 she ran the educative department of the local theater, Teatro Luna Blou. In 2006 Roe started the show Luna Yen, Luna Blou’s open mic stage for youth that is run today by Segni Bernadina. In the summer of 2007 she organized the Barbulètè Tour. Symphonical Orchestra Riciotti Ensemble toured the island for four days with Izaline Calister, giving no less than 18 concerts in the most unusual of places; from Hòfi Pastor to the Bon Futuro prison, from the fort in Boca Sami to the Capriles clinic. This resulted in the popular documentary United by Music by Michel Drenthe, which was nominated for a prize at the Moondance festival in Colorado, USA.

In the mean time Roe continued her PhD degree in Miami, and started as editor in chief for the Newsletter of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), a large international academic organization. 

In August 2011 she moved back to Curaçao in order to prepare her dissertation research. In the spring of 2012 Roe started with Sombra di Koló, an interactive documentary project on race relations in Curaçao today. Sombra di Koló will premiere in Teatro Luna Blou in the fall of 2013.

Roe further was floormanager at the recording of German Gruber Jr’s motion film Sensei Redenshon in Februari 2012. In April 2012 she was chairwoman of the jury of Youth Short Film Competition of the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam (CIFFR), as well as one of the festival’s hosts. In the festival of 2013 she fulfilled the same tasks. On October 1rst of 2012 she organized a large concert on Brion plein to stop the increasing violence in Curaçao, together with Dennis Aalse. This was the Have A Heart. A Call-for-Preace Benefit Concert. Stop Violensia, Uni pa Kòrsou.

Roe is also a copy editor, text writer, poet, painter, host, and jazz singer. 

So there you have it. I blogged. And honestly, it wasn't that bad...

Roughly translated this text tells you that I am an artistically challenged scholar that gears her work towards socially relevant, creative and community oriented projects. I seek to build bridges between the academic world and the world where everyone else lives; to make inquiry and information available to large audiences in entertaining ways. 

In my dissertation project and documentary film I get to ask people tough questions about how they feel about their skin color. And also about the people that they like and about those that annoy them, and their skin color. This seriously is the best job ever! Check in again sometime soon and I will explain why.