KAVELLE Hylton agrees with the Leo Tolstoy quote from War and Peace that says, “Chance created the situation; genius made use of it”, especially because she can see how it relates to her own journey. It was purely by chance that she became a science teacher, but she has used her genius to translate that chance into an avenue for her to become an entrepreneur in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

“Sometimes you think that you are not on the path that you're supposed to take, and then you end up finding your true purpose,” she mused as she spoke with All Woman. “I thought I wanted to become a pathologist.”

Hylton shared that she had always been interested in the sciences, and she could remember being curious about nature since she was a child.

“Being the youngest of all my siblings, I was in charge of cleaning up the garden and I was always curious about how the plants would just bloom, and things like that. I was very curious about nature, and I was always trying to discover things,” she recalled fondly. “But of course as you get older and you tell people that you like science, they will say that you're going to become a doctor, so my plan was to get into medical school.”

Hylton sat common entrance at 10 years old and graduated from Jones Town Primary to attend Trench Town Comprehensive High School, where she not only became the head girl, but she aced all eight of her subjects and secured a spot in sixth form at Wolmer's Girls' School.

But because her previous school was understaffed, Hylton did not have the foundation chemistry subject that was required to do all sciences in her A' level exams, so she did biology, along with general studies, and applied for the faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI).

“That would have been the next route to get into medicine,” she explained. “But along the way, I ended up on a different career path.”

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