Marion Bethel

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

Bethel is best known for her collections 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 2012 documentary film on the women's suffrage movement in The Bahamas, entitled ''Womanish Ways: Freedom, Human Rights & Democracy 1934 to 1962'', which received the 2012 Award in Documentary at the Urban Suburban International Film Festivall. Her passionate involvement in the Women's Movement in the Caribbean earned her the 11th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Triennial Award for Women in 2014. Bethel has also received the Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry, and has spoken at many events, including The IV International Poetry Festival of Granada.

She 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