Bethan Jenkins

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. Bethan Jenkins grew up in the Welsh town of Merthyr Tydfil where her parents were involved in the Anti-Apartheid Movement of the 1980s and early 1990s. Her brother is the journalist and broadcaster Ciaran Jenkins. She is a former pupil of Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, near Pontypridd. Her father is the poet Mike Jenkins, a previous winner of the John Tripp award. As well as being politically active, she enjoys music. Bethan was in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales for three years, and the Welsh language folk/pop band Gilespi. She...