Adeline Magloire Chancy
Adeline Magloire Chancy (born April 4, 1931) is a Haitian educator, feminist, and politician. She has worked to promote the recognition of Haitian Creole as a valid language in its own right. Chancy is a founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy and served as Haiti's minister for the feminine condition and women's rights from 2004 to 2006. Early life Adeline Magloire was born in 1931 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and grew up in the suburb of Pétion-Ville. Her father was an architect and her mother was a teacher. Her sisters were Nicole Magloire and Denise Magloire Fouchard, both of whom also became feminist activists. Chancy studied at L'École Normale Supérieure, a constituent school of the Université d'État d'Haïti, as well as at the university's law school. Career In the early 1960s, Chancy became an activist for democracy and women's rights under the Duvalier dictatorship, organizing with the Committee of Patriotic Women and the Unified Democratic Front. This period shaped her advocacy for Haitian Creole: Chancy was forced to go into exile with her family in 1965, and they settled in Canada, taking up residence in Montreal's Outremont neighborhood. Their home became a center of community organizing for Haitians in Montreal,