Help Us Explain the Caribbean,
From the Caribbean.

ETC is building a trusted network of informed contributors across the region who can help us verify information, identify meaningful stories, and add the real-world context that only local knowledge can provide.

If you live in the Caribbean or spend at least five months of every year in the region, your perspective can help ensure the Caribbean is represented with greater accuracy, depth, and nuance.

Apply to Join the Network

The Caribbean is often discussed from a distance.

ETC exists to make the region more understandable, discoverable, and accessible through engaging, research-driven content. To do that properly, we need trusted people who understand the realities, conversations, institutions, cultures, and changes shaping their own countries and territories.

The ETC Research Contributor Network will help strengthen the accuracy, relevance, and depth of the stories we tell about the Caribbean.

How You May Contribute

Verify Information
Help verify information, statistics, and local developments.
Add Cultural Context
Provide cultural context and nuance that may not be visible from outside the country or territory.
Identify Stories
Identify stories, conversations, trends, public issues, and changes worth explaining.
Share Credible Leads
Share credible local leads, institutions, experts, and sources.
Support Research Requests
Support specific ETC research requests when contacted.
Shape Editorial Work
Contribute insight that may shape ETC Instagram posts, articles, explainers, and future editorial projects.

How Your Contribution
May Be Recognised

ETC believes that people who help shape the regional conversation should be visible within it.

When an approved contribution is developed into a standalone ETC Instagram post, ETC may publish the post as an Instagram collaboration with the contributor’s account, subject to editorial judgement and Instagram platform requirements.

This gives contributors public recognition while helping build a more informed, connected, and credible Caribbean media ecosystem.

Who Should Apply

  • You currently live in a Caribbean country or territory, or spend at least five months of every year in the Caribbean.
  • You are at least 18 years old.
  • You have strong knowledge of the country or territory you are applying to represent.
  • You are thoughtful, accurate, culturally aware, and able to communicate clearly.
  • You are interested in helping ensure the Caribbean is represented with greater nuance, intelligence, and honesty.
  • You are open to being contacted occasionally for research support, fact-checking, story leads, or local perspective.

This is a flexible, voluntary contributor opportunity. There is no guaranteed compensation, assignment volume, publication, or Instagram collaboration. Contributors will only be contacted when their insight is relevant to a specific ETC research need.

Application Review and Verification

ETC reviews applications selectively and may verify an applicant’s identity, Caribbean connection, local knowledge, public professional footprint, and relevant experience before accepting them into the network.

Accepted contributors may also be asked to complete a short introductory conversation or initial research exercise before receiving contributor opportunities.

ETC Research Contributors are expected to treat unpublished editorial requests, research questions, and project information with discretion.

Apply to Join the ETC Research Contributor Network

Tell us about your connection to the Caribbean, the country or territory you know best, and the perspective you can bring to ETC.

Your Details
Your Caribbean Connection
Your Knowledge and Perspective
Which areas do you feel most informed about? *
Availability
Are you open to being contacted for time-sensitive research questions when relevant? *
How often would you realistically be available to contribute insight? *
Confirmation

Your information will only be used by Explaining The Caribbean to assess your application and contact you about relevant ETC research opportunities. It will not be sold or shared for unrelated marketing purposes.