Professional Profile

As Executive Director of the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC), Marianne combines her social policy expertise, organizing skills, devotion to social justice, and deep faith in the human capacity for goodness to furthering the IISC's mission. In addition to delivering training, consulting, coaching, and facilitation services, Marianne leads the ongoing development of new services and fundraising efforts for IISC, as well as organizational thinking and learning about innovative ways to create high impact social change.

Current and Past Clients Include

Ford Foundation, Peace and Security Initiative, Union of Concerned Scientists

Recommended Books

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age by Daniel H. Pink, The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures by Frans Johansson, and The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace by John Paul Lederach