Marleine Bastien, Warrior for Right

Ask Marleine Bastien what sparked her life's trajectory, an arc that's encompassed appearances on Oprah and CNN and the designation as Ms. Magazine's 2001 "Woman of the Year," and she'll tell you to rewind the clock nearly 40 years. She'll ask you to blot out the chaos of Miami and instead think of a remote village in central Haiti called Pont-Benoit.