Leadership.
Advocacy.
Community voice.
Speaking and facilitation that connect leadership, civic engagement, organizational capacity, and community change.
In the room.
In the community.
In the work.
Marsita’s public work includes keynote speaking at Black Lives Matter events, advocacy on Ohio legislation, campaigns for Painesville City Council, and facilitated dialogue across differences. Her speaking and facilitation connect community experience to civic participation, policy, and practical action.
Dialoguing
Across Differences.
Dialoguing Across Differences is a facilitated event that creates space for listening, perspective-taking, and constructive engagement across differences. Drawing on her facilitation at the University of Cincinnati, Marsita also helps faculty, staff, and students learn how to plan and implement the event on their own campus. Event facilitation and planning support are tailored to the audience, setting, and purpose.
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University of Cincinnati · Dialoguing Across Differences facilitation
Put experience
into action.
Civic engagement & participation
Youth leadership, student voting, community participation, and the connection between civic education and action. Relevant for campuses, youth-serving organizations, and community groups.
Dialogue across differences
Facilitated dialogue, community listening, and civic forums that help people work through disagreement, hear different perspectives, and identify a path forward. Relevant for campuses, public institutions, and community groups.
Organizational capacity & implementation
Grant readiness, program design, operational systems, and the relationship between funding and sustainable delivery. Relevant for nonprofit teams, organizational leaders, and community-serving institutions.
From campus rooms
to Ghana.
Marsita’s speaking and facilitation experience includes NASPA, higher education and student leadership settings, community dialogue, and international civic education with the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition through a U.S. Embassy initiative.
Engagements can take the form of a keynote, presentation, panel contribution, facilitated dialogue, or practical workshop. The subject and format are developed around the audience, purpose, and time available.
Explore the work behind the topics ↗Speaking &
facilitation.
Community and public speaking
Keynote speaking at Black Lives Matter events, public advocacy on Ohio legislation, and community dialogue across differences.
Campus and student engagement
Higher education facilitation and student leadership settings, including NASPA and Dialoguing Across Differences at the University of Cincinnati.
International civic engagement
Ghana’s youth civic education initiative is featured as a project case study on the Work & Impact page; this page highlights the speaking and facilitation role within that work.
A Black Lives Matter rally video will be added when Marsita provides the video file.
Women’s Achievement
Video 1
Marsita’s individual video from the Lakeland Community College Women’s Achievement 2019 interview series.
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