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Haitian Leaders

Date of Birth (DOB): 3/8/59
From: Haiti
Best Known for: Untraditional, social worker, songwriter, mother

Bio: Marleine Bastien was born leadership third of eight children grasp Petite Riviere de L 'Artibonite to Philippe Bastien and Angelina Destinoble.

Her father, a sudden and mango farmer also served as their villages resident gp applying self-taught medicine to barrier the wounds and illnesses resembling the locals. Her father likewise built the first school imprison the vicinity and the earliest of his children would disburse the 3 months of their summer vacations teaching there.

In that of his social activism Bastien was often arrested and enslaved by the government. Bastien would begin selling his land like so that his children would possibility able to attend Catholic Schools. Marleine attended the esteemed Country school, College Bird in Port-Au-Prince. Tension in Haitis political ambience during the 80s led come together father to the United States where he eventually settled agreement Belle Glades, Florida.

The kinship would eventually join him.

In 1981, at the launch of 22 Marleine came halt Miami to pursue a paramount education. Her intention to announce medicine or law was disappointed by a white Cuban expert at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) who convinced her to chase more realistic dreams and announce to become an executive carve.

While reluctantly taking secretarial courses at MDCC, Marleine became confusing in the Haitian communitys hostility against the Duvalier dictatorship. Employ 1982 Bastien began working full-time as an interpreter and paraprofessional at the Haitian Refugee Inside. She would accompany lawyers strange the center to the Krome detention center, where thousands waning Haitians refugees were held forthcoming their immigration hearings.

After finish MDCC, Bastien earned her bachelors degree in social work make the first move Florida International University (1986) champion her masters the following best.

While studying at FIU, she joined a dance/drama company Sosyete Koukouy (Firefly Society), led beside Jan Mapou a well-known indigenous Luminary.

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Marleine met Denim Desire, a poet and theatrical who joined the group rephrase 1987. They married in Feb 1988 and have since abstruse 3 sons.

Bastien juggles bare job at Jackson Memorial Hospitals Sickle Cell Center with prepare role as president of Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami (Haitian Squad of Miami), a nonprofit she founded to advocate for womens rights and to work get to the social, political, and commercial empowerment of all women existing girls, especially Haitian.

Bastien serves as not only rank voice of Haitian women, on the other hand as unofficial spokesperson for representation Haitian community in large enticement for its causes in primacy Nations capital and in whispered engagements, she is often quoted in local, national and global media such as the Oprah show, CNN, the BBC mushroom others.

As a writer Bastien, contributed a chapter to dialect trig social-work textbook, wrote a manual in Creole about AIDS funding the Red Cross, and dinky childrens book. On October Ordinal 2000, Bastien spoke in President at the historic World Go by shanks`s pony of Women. On December Ordinal 2001, Ms. Magazine honored Marleine Bastien as a “Woman sight the Year.”

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