Lunch with Marla Marcum in the Berkeley College Swiss Room
Event time:
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 11:30pm
Berkeley College Dining Hall, Swiss Room
Event description:
The Environmental Studies Program is offering students the opportunity to chat with Marla over lunch. This event is capped at 20 people and includes a meal swipe.
Marla Marcum (she/her) is a seminary-trained United Methodist committed to supporting people of all faiths and no particular faith to act boldly for justice. An experienced campaigner, trainer, pastor and lay leader, she brings two decades of social justice organizing experience with faith-based, youth, and grassroots groups. She supported the launch of Climate Summer, serving as its Director for five years, and is a Co-Founder of both Better Future Project and 350 Massachusetts. Marla has supported, organized, and participated in many direct action and civil disobedience efforts, including the Lobster Boat Blockade and the campaign of sustained nonviolent resistance to Spectra Energy’s West Roxbury Lateral pipeline project with Resist The Pipeline. Marla is passionate about leadership development and building supportive communities of resistance among unlikely allies.