Bethan Jenkins
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Bethan Jenkins AM |
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| Member of the Welsh Assembly for South Wales West Region |
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Assumed office 3 May 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Janet Davies |
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9 December 1981 Aberdare, Wales |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Political party | Plaid Cymru |
| Alma mater | Aberystwyth University |
Bethan Jenkins AM (born 9 December 1981), is a Welsh politician, born in Aberdare, Wales, who has represented the South Wales West Region for Plaid Cymru as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales since 2007.
Jenkins is the daughter of poet Mike Jenkins, the winner of the Welsh Book of The Year in 1998. She grew up in Merthyr Tydfil, where both her parents were involved in the Anti-Apartheid Movement of the 1980s and early 1990s. Her brother is the Channel 4 News reporter Ciaran Jenkins.
She was educated at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, near Pontypridd. She then studied International Politics and International History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Through student politics, she was elected to the Aberystwyth Guild of Students executive, and was serving as Guild President by 2004. With the organisation Cymru X she has served as a national organiser of the party’s youth wing.
In 2006, Jenkins was selected as Plaid Cymru's lead candidate for the South West Wales Regional list and was duly elected in the subsequent elections of May 2007. Jenkins was initially Plaid Cymru's Child Poverty and Culture Spokesperson for the Plaid Cymru group at the National Assembly, and sat on the Communities and Culture committee, Audit committee, and the newly formed Petitions Committee.
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