Growing up in rural Jamaica, Bacardi North America Vice President and General Counsel Marlene Gordon didn’t have electricity or running water.
But with a tangible lesson in the value of self-determination, Gordon’s young mother gave her a degree of empowerment perhaps uncommon among girls growing up in rural poverty. When Gordon was 5, her parents left her in her grandmother’s care for three years while her mother put herself through college in the U.S.
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