Elsie Etheart

Elsie Etheart (born ) is a Haitian journalist known for founding the newspaper Haïti en Marche.

Etheart was born in Haiti in the early 1940s. While there, she worked for Voice of Germany in Cologne.

She then returned to Haiti, where the news environment was opening slightly after the death of dictator François Duvalier

In 1980, Etheart was detained and then expelled by the government of Jean-Claude Duvalier along with many of her journalist colleagues. Also with Garcia, in 1986, she co-founded the newspaper Haïti en Marche, which became a trusted source for members of the Haitian diaspora. Due to this work, she was described as one of the "most trusted Haitian journalists in the diaspora." While there, she helped establish the station Radio Mélodie.

Until his death in 2024, she was married to the sociologist Emmanuel Bernard Etheart, with whom she had two children.