Marianne Shearer, Director of Development

Marianne Shearer joined the Women's Commission as Director of Development in December 2007. She previously worked at Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) as Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations. She held the same position at Fordham University, where she raised funds for eleven divisions of the university, including an initiative that took her to China for corporate support of a joint law/business program. Prior to her work in development, Marianne and her husband founded an award-winning custom publishing firm, Image Partners, which produces magazines, annual reports and newsletters for non-profits and Fortune 500 companies. Marianne also spent 10 years in admissions at Columbia University, first as an Assistant Director at the College and then as Associate Director of Admissions at the Graduate School of Journalism. She taught Freshman Composition and English Literature at the maximum security prison for women in Bedford Hills, NY and also volunteered as a child advocate for children whose mothers were incarcerated. Marianne received her B.A. from Kirkland College and her Master’s degree from Columbia University.

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