Daniella Jeffry-Pilot
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Daniella Jeffry-Pilot (1941 - 2019) was a writer, teacher and historian from Saint Martin, who was the founder of the United Saint-Martin Movement. She was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government for her activism.
Jeffry-Pilot was born in 1941 in Marigot and went to school at the Lycée Gerville-Réache in Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe.[1] She graduated in 1965 from the University of Paris-La Sorbonne with a BA in English and in 1971 she graduated from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar, with a Higher Certificate in Education and returned to Saint Martin. From 1974 she taught English and French at the Collège of Marigot.[2] She also translated the works of archaeologist Jay Haviser and writer George Lamming to French for books by House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP).[3]
In 1988 she founded the United Saint-Martin Movement, which campaigned for the political unification of the island. In 1990 she was appointed president of the Saint-Martin People's Consensus by Mayor Albert Fleming. She retired from the Collège of Marigot in 2000.[2] From 2001 to 2007 she was a member of the Territorial Council.[1] She died in 2019.[4]
