About Us
Alice James
Founder, CEO
Alice James is a Dominican business leader with experience across the automotive, tourism, finance, and business development sectors. Throughout her career, she has focused on improving operations, strengthening customer experiences, building partnerships, and creating systems that support sustainable business growth.
Her ability to connect people, ideas, and opportunities inspired the creation of 1561 Creates; a platform designed to showcase authentic Dominican products while creating greater opportunities for local producers to reach customers at home, across the Caribbean, and internationally.
Alice brings a collaborative and practical approach to entrepreneurship, with a strong focus on developing meaningful partnerships with producers and communities across Dominica. Through 1561 Creates, she hopes to make it easier for customers to discover, purchase, and experience products that reflect the creativity, skill, and character of Dominica.
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Meet The Team
Danielle Polydore-Paul
Compassionate medical student with a strong interest in patient care, teamwork, and continuous learning. Experienced in balancing academic responsibilities with leadership and communication skills while supporting a high standard of professionalism.
With a combined social media following of approximately 7,900, she brings firsthand experience in understanding digital audiences, creating relatable content, and developing engaging visual material. As Social Media Video Editor for 1561 Creates, she helps transform the stories of Dominican farmers, producers, and communities into short-form content designed to connect with audiences locally, regionally, and internationally.
Ayisha Challenger
We Work With the Best Partners
Our strength lies in the exceptional people we bring together. We work alongside a talented, driven team of experts who bring creativity, precision, and deep industry knowledge to every project. Their dedication to quality and collaborative spirit enable us to solve complex challenges, innovate continuously, and consistently deliver results that exceed expectations.
A Little Piece of Dominica, Made Easier to Discover
15°61° Creates Agro Trading is a Dominican trading and aggregation business created to make authentic locally produced goods easier to discover, purchase and enjoy.
Across Dominica, farmers, agro-processors and small producers create distinctive products rooted in our land, communities and traditions. Yet customers often have to search across villages, individual vendors and separate channels to find them. 15°61° Creates brings selected products together through one convenient platform.
We partner with Dominican farmers, producers and agro-processors to source and curate products for local residents, visitors and gift buyers. Rather than replacing the identity of the people behind the products, our aim is to help extend their reach while giving customers a simple and trusted shopping experience.
What We Do
- Source and curate authentic products from Dominican farmers, producers and agro-processors.
- Bring products from multiple local suppliers together through one storefront.
- Support more consistent product presentation, packaging and information where appropriate.
- Offer individual products and curated boxes for convenient shopping and gifting.
- Consolidate orders, pack them carefully and coordinate delivery.
Celebrating our Communities
From bay oil and bay leaves to cassava and farine, cocoa sticks, pepper sauces, tamarind treats and other locally made favourites, our growing collection celebrates the skills, flavours and stories found across the Nature Island.
As 15°61° Creates grows, we intend to introduce more producers, more communities and more products—while growing carefully, preserving authenticity and building practical routes to market for Dominican goods.
Our Promise
From the Hands of Dominica
