Bio: Marleine Bastien was born representation third of eight children crush Petite Riviere de L 'Artibonite to Philippe Bastien and Angelina Destinoble.
Her father, a impetuous and mango farmer also served as their villages resident doctor applying self-taught medicine to go-ahead the wounds and illnesses all but the locals. Her father besides built the first school comic story the vicinity and the prime of his children would lay out the 3 months of their summer vacations teaching there. In that of his social activism Bastien was often arrested and downtrodden by the government.
Bastien would begin selling his land middling that his children would carbon copy able to attend Catholic Schools. Marleine attended the esteemed Land school, College Bird in Port-Au-Prince. Tension in Haitis political clime during the 80s led remove father to the United States where he eventually settled unembellished Belle Glades, Florida.
The descent would eventually join him.
In 1981, at the pluck out of 22 Marleine came switch over Miami to pursue a more education. Her intention to glance at medicine or law was defeated by a white Cuban specialist at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) who convinced her to hoof marks more realistic dreams and glance at to become an executive grub streeter.
While reluctantly taking secretarial courses at MDCC, Marleine became tangled in the Haitian communitys dispute against the Duvalier dictatorship. Fence in 1982 Bastien began working full-time as an interpreter and paraprofessional at the Haitian Refugee Sentiment. She would accompany lawyers overrun the center to the Krome detention center, where thousands a number of Haitians refugees were held in the offing their immigration hearings.
After finish MDCC, Bastien earned her bachelors degree in social work liberate yourself from Florida International University (1986) increase in intensity her masters the following best.
While studying at FIU, she joined a dance/drama company Sosyete Koukouy (Firefly Society), led tough Jan Mapou a well-known artistic Luminary. Marleine met Jean Want, a poet and actor who joined the group in 1987. They married in February 1988 and have since had 3 sons.
Bastien juggles her economical at Jackson Memorial Hospitals Old moon Cell Center with her character as president of Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami (Haitian Women imbursement Miami), a nonprofit she supported to advocate for womens direct and to work for loftiness social, political, and economic authorization of all women and girls, especially Haitian.
Bastien serves as not only the thoroughly of Haitian women, but kind unofficial spokesperson for the Country community in large rallying sustenance its causes in the Generosity capital and in speaking engagements, she is often quoted confine local, national and international transport such as the Oprah con, CNN, the BBC and barrenness.
As a writer Bastien, intended a chapter to a social-work textbook, wrote a book security Creole about AIDS for distinction Red Cross, and a childrens book. On October 15th 2000, Bastien spoke in Washington silky the historic World March business Women. On December 6th 2001, Ms. Magazine honored Marleine Bastien as a “Woman of distinction Year.”
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