Trisha Roy

Highlights • Principal Broker/ Coach, Open Spaces International • Faculty at Florida Realtors • Licensed Real Estate Instructor, Florida, DBPR. Instructor at Open Spaces International School of Real Estate • Vice President, SCORE of North Central Florida • Graduate - Realtor Institute (GRI) • Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) • GREEN Designee, National Association of Realtors. • Certified “At Home With Diversity (AHWD)” • Chair of Realtor’s Global Council, Gainesville Area Association of Realtors 2016-2018 • Member, International Council, Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce • International CIPS Advisory Board, National Association of Realtors • Land Use, Property Right & Environment Committee, National Association of Realtors • Masters degree in Ecology & Environment (IIEE), • Masters degree in Management (KU) • Leadership Academy, Florida Realtors’ Class of 2019, Graduate, 2018 Class of Leadership Development, Gainesville Alachua County Association of Realtors, Graduate 2015 Class of Public Leadership Institute, Gainesville Business Community Coalition, Alachua County. Profile Trisha Roy is an International Realtor, Instructor and diversity and sustainability specialist, and represents a broad spectrum understanding of international culture, business and real estate education. Trisha works with the local Chambers of Commerce to help promote Gainesville’s identity in the international arena. Trisha serves as Vice President for SCORE’s North Central Florida chapter to promote small businesses in the area. She teaches various audiences from Realtors to small business owners. She has been invited speaker to various audiences of advanced academic students about her area of specialization and leadership. Trisha has been invited to be on the final Judges Panel at the University of Florida Veteran's Entrepreneurship Program of 2018, which has veterans competing from all over the USA. In her academic background, Trisha holds two Masters degrees, the first in Ecology & Environment, from the Indian Institute of Ecology & Environment, and her research work on Behavioral Ecology of Red Pandas in the Himalayan foothills received a Distinction. Sustainable Development, juxtaposed against the real challenges of wild habitat encroachment formed much of her work in India. She also holds a second Masters Degree in Management, from Kettering University, and her research in that effort explored how sustainability and planning could have impacted the story of Flint, MI. She is a published author, with many publications in newspapers, magazines, both as a poet and a writer on topics of ecological and environmental interest, on leadership theories, as well as one book. She is an active blogger and her writing is widely followed. On a personal level, Trisha is an avid nature-photographer, dancer-choreographer, and practices and learns Shotokan karate along with her two boys, who are both black belts. In her spare time, Trisha enjoys writing, hiking on Florida’s many trails, and nature photography. Trisha volunteers on many local causes and committees, including as a voluntary “mammal keeper” at the Jacksonville Zoo, utilizing old skills learned during her research days in India’s zoos, and as an organizer, and cultural lead for Gainesville’ Indian community.

Specialisation

Luxury, Rural, Retail, Industrial, Hotel

Countries

Bangladesh, India, United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Experience

7 years

Associations

National Association Realtors