A writer, editor, video journalist and media entrepreneur, Marcia is the author of the forthcoming book, Swarms: The Rise of the Digital Anti-Establishment. A lecturer on digital media strategy, communication and the evolution of social networks at Columbia University, Marcia is a frequent speaker at social innovation conferences and events around the world, and has presented on the future of media in civil society for SxSW, Stanford’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, New York University’s Stern School of Business, TEDxOxford, the U.S. State Department (in Washington and Geneva), the Highland Forum (in Washington and Singapore), Italy’s annual Festival del Fundraising, the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, UNICEF, the Initiative for Heritage Conservancy in Athens, the FTC, the National Press Club in Washington, and the Milken Institute’s annual Global Conference in Los Angeles, among others.

Professionally, as Chief Strategy Officer for Brand Stories, a creative agency she founded in 2011, Marcia advises social entrepreneurs, nonprofit executives, civil society leaders and news organizations how to harness the power of social networks and navigate disruptive change; her studio creates and produces cross-channel narratives and short-form documentaries to convey and scale social impact and to tell stories that generate empathy and inspire people to think, feel and take action. Marcia’s journalism honors include a George Polk Award and a National Press Club Award for Washington Correspondence; she was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and studied new media as a John S. Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University.