Graduating with an LLB in 1998 has, she says, "opened up lots of fields". Indeed it has. Cheryl is currently Jamaica’s representative on UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee. She also manages the Office of Sponsored Research at the University of the West Indies and is Chief Adjudicator for the Literary Arts for the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission. In 2010 she published a a book of literary criticism, Black American Literature: from Beecher-Stowe to Baldwin (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller) and more recently has published an article on the ethical concerns faced by medical personnel as a result of recent scientific progress. She has two daughters, Lauren and Elise.