Marion Bethel

Marion Bethel (born 31 July 1953) is an attorney, poet, essayist, filmmaker, human and gender rights activist, and writer from Nassau, The Bahamas.

Bethel is best known for her anthologies of poems, ''Guanahani, My Love'' and ''Bougainvillea Ringplay''. Her work has appeared in publications including ''The Caribbean Writer'', ''The Massachusetts Review'' and ''Junction'', an anthology of Bahamian writing. She is also recognized for her documentary film on the women's suffrage movement in The Bahamas called ''Womanish Ways: Freedom, Human Rights & Democracy 1934 to 1962'', which received the 2012 Award in Documentary at the Urban Suburban International Film Festivall. Her passion in her involvement in the Women's Movement in the Caribbean has awarded her the 11th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) award in 2014. Bethel has also received the Casa de Las Americas Prize for poetry, and has spoken at many events, including The IV International Poetry Festival of Granada.

She currently resides with her husband Alfred Sears in The Bahamas, where she is a managing partner at Sears & Co. She now focuses on political activism in civil society in The Bahamas and began serving on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on 1 January 2017. Provided by Wikipedia