Wedderburn is very actively involved in local activities such as the Craig Town Youth Organization, Kingston, Jamaica for which she designed and implemented a two-year leadership training programme for adolescent women which addressed a broad range of issues: literacy and numeracy, gender, women's rights, reproductive health, domestic and sexual violence. She designed and co-authored "Rise Up Women Leaders" a popular education training guide to leadership skills for young women for building self-confidence and self-esteem and used in workshops for pregnant teenagers and women's groups at community level. She also designed and taught modules on "gender as a dynamic concept in the media" and "a gender sensitive analysis of the media" for the undergraduate and graduate degree courses at CARIMAC, University of the West Indies. In addition, she has facilitated popular education workshops and designed resource materials for young women and men in youth clubs, children's homes, schools, teacher training colleges and media practitioners. Both of these last two activities were part of her work with Women's Media Watch (Jamaica).

Wedderburn is a resource person and an active member of many local, national and regional organizations including Women's Media Watch--Jamaica (founding member and programme coordinator); the Association of Development Agencies (Chairperson 1992-1995, Deputy Chairperson 1996-2000, Chairperson May 2000-Present); the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (Chairperson, 1993-1995), the Caribbean Reference Group (an Alternate member for ACE); and Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean Economists (ACE).

Judith is also the Caribbean Representative to the Boards of a number of international organizations such as MATCH International, Ottawa, Canada and the Foundation for International Training (FIT), Toronto, Canada.

Her research and publication activities include: Trade, Integration and Gender (prepared for the CRIES Network, Managua, Nicaragua, 2001); The Gender Implications of Trade Policies in the Caribbean with special reference to NAFTA (UNIFEM 1998); Social Reproduction and Unpaid Work (Background paper for the Gender Chapter of the Jamaica Human Development Report 2000); Poverty Eradication Programmes in a context of Negative Growth and High debt: The Case of Jamaica 1995-2000; Globalization and Governance (with Bridgette Levy, for UN ELAC, 1999); A Caribbean Reader on Development (editor, 1999); Crime and Violence: Causes and Solutions (co-edited with Peter Phillips,1988); Integration and Participatory Development (editor, 1990). Rethinking Development (editor, 1991); "Integracion, cooperacion y coordinacion en el Caribe in Cambio de Paradigmas en America Latina: Nuevos impulsos, nuevos temores, edited by Mols, Hengstenberg, Kohut, Sandner and Sangmeister); The Limits of Political Sovereignty: A Review of the Jamaican Experience, 1989-1991 (co-edited with Anthony Bogues, 1994)) and Organizations and Social Actors in the Regionalization Process in Elements of Regional Integration: The Way Forward Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica, 1998.

Judith speaks and writes Spanish reasonably well.

Email: Judith Ann Wedderburn