Marion Bethel

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Full Name	Marion Bethel
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Jul 31, 1953(1953-07-31)
Age	71
Birthplace	Nassau
Country	The Bahamas
Horoscope	Cancer

Marion Bethel Biography

Marion Bethel is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on July 31, 1953 in Nassau, The Bahamas. Bethel is most well- known for her anthologies of poetry, Guanahani, My Love and Bougainvillea Ringplay. Her work has been published in magazines such as The Caribbean Writer , The Massachusetts Review and Junction Anthology, an collection that includes Bahamian writing. Her work is also acknowledged for her documentary film on the women’s movement for suffrage that took place in The Bahamas called Womanish Ways: Freedom, Human Rights & Democracy 1934-62 that won the 2012 Award in Documentary at the Urban Suburban International Film Festival. Her dedication to her work within The Women’s Movement in the Caribbean has earned an 11th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) award in 2014. Bethel has also been awarded her Casa de Las Americas Prize for poetry. She has also been a speaker at numerous events, such as The IV International Poetry Festival of Granada.

When she was working on her debut novel Guanahani, My Love, Bethel went to her first Caribbean Writers Summer Institute at the University of Miami in 1991 and worked with two well-known Barbadian authors, George Lamming and Kamau Braithwaite. In the wake of the death of Southern Christian Leadership Conference founder and pioneer of civil rights Evelyn Lowery, Bethel’s film Womanish Ways: Freedom, Human Rights & Democracy 1934 to 1962 was screened in the auditorium of Spelman College and she met many of Atlanta’s most influential African-American activists and entrepreneurs as well as the former Vice President of Tyler Perry Studios and CEOand Director Rogger Bobb, CEO/ President of Bobbcat Films Rogger Bobb. The following week the billionaire Bill Allen treated Mrs. Bethel as well as The Bahamas Consul General to lunch. the Consul General Randy Rolle stated that people like Marion Bethel have much to contribute in sharing the story that is the history of The Bahamas.

Marion Bethel acted as Ms. Wells in the 2008 movie Rain and is better known for the documentary film she directed on the women’s suffrage movement in The Bahamas. This documentary, entitled Womanish Ways: Freedom, Human Rights & Democracy 1934 to 1962, was showcased by Bahamas Consulate Office of Atlanta at Spelman College after the death of Southern Christian Leadership Conference founder and civil rights pioneer Evelyn Lowery.

After passing her bar exams in September 1984, Bethel was admitted as an attorney-at-law to the Bar of England and Wales in 1985 and The Bahamas in 1986 while practicing administrative law, company law, commercial law, contracts, conveyancing, immigration law, insurance law, and matrimonial law. From 1896 to 1994, she then went on to work in the Office of the Attorney General; in 1997, she was named the Alice Proskauer Fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Harvard University, while also writing Bougainvillea Ringplay during her spare time. On June 2005, Bethel began a retreat for African-American poets as a three-part poetry workshop titled “Cave Canem”, held at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2012, she directed Womanish Ways: Freedom, Human Rights & Democracy, the Women’s Suffrage Movement in The Bahamas 1948 to 1962, a documentary on the struggle to gain women the right to vote in The Bahamas. Her passion for the Women’s Movement in the Caribbean and The Bahamas became evident from this movie and she then received widespread support from many African, European, and Asian countries. Bethel was elected to serve on the Committee of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2019. She currently works as a managing partner at Sears & Co. and is working on a third anthology of poetry and a novel.

In July of 1991 Bethel was awarded an James Michener Fellowship in the Department of English at the University of Miami by the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute. Bethel was among the very only a handful of Caribbean writers to be awarded the Casa de Las Americas Prize for her collection of poetry in Guanahani Mi Amor: Other poems. In addition, Bethel is also the first Bahamian to be awarded the CARICOM award. She was awarded the award in 2014 in recognition of her contributions to gender justice and culture as well as the economic development that is taking place in the Caribbean. One of the ways she has helped to promote gender equality and the arts is with her film Womanish Ways: Freedom, Human Rights & Democracy 1934 to 1962, which won the 2012 Award in Documentary at the Urban Suburban International Film Festival in Philadelphia. Despite the fact that she made interventions on behalf of female lawmakers Hope Strachan and Loretta Butler. However, the representative for Englerston Glenys Hanna-Martin says that Bethel’s documentary is an “beautiful, powerful piece of work. “.

Marion Bethel Net Worth

Marion Bethel is one of the richest Lawyer from The Bahamas. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marion Bethel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Marion Bethel (born 31 July 1953) is an lawyer poet, essayist, filmmaker human rights and gender equality activist as well as a writer, hailing born in Nassau, The Bahamas.

After earning the bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish with distinction from McGill University, Bethel received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Law at Wolfson College, Cambridge University. While in England she completed her legal education certificate from the Council of Legal Education and then pursued a Master of Arts degree in the same institution at Columbia University. Before passing her bar exams in 1987 Bethel was able to write poems later released under the title Guanahani, My Love (originally Guanahani Mi Amor: and otros poems) that was awarded the famous Casa de Las Americas Prize of Poetry which made her one of only a handful of Caribbean poets to win this prize.

Before finishing her bar examinations, Bethel spent a full summer writing a draft of Guanahani, My Love and published her first book in 1994, later to be republished by House of Nehesi Publishers in 2009. Her second book Bougainvillea Ringplay was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2009 and she is currently working on a third poetry collection and novel. She has been a guest star at various international events including the Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Florida International University in April 1996, the IV International Poetry Festival of Granada, the Miami International Book Fair in November 1997, the Caribbean Women Writers Series at Duke University in February 2002 and the XVI International Poetry Festival of Medellin in June 2006 in Medellin, Colombia. Additionally, House of Nehesi Publishers invited her as a guest poet and workshop presenter to their 5th Annual St. Martin BookFair in May 2007. Her work has been featured The Caribbean Writer, Volume 8, Moving Beyond, and anthologies of Bahamian poetry Junction and From the Shallow Seas.

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