Marcia received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Toronto in 1994. Her other degrees include a M.Phil. in Geography from the University of Birmingham, England and a B.A. in Geography and Urban Studies from Macalester College. After receiving her Ph.D., Marcia worked as an international development consultant and as a gender and development research manager for Aga Khan Foundation Canada, a non-governmental organization. She worked for seven years for the Voinovich Center for Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University in the areas of training, evaluation, and performance measurement with a variety of non-profit and public sector entities. For eleven years she worked at Arizona State University as the project manager for the Central Arizona Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research program, funded by the National Science Foundation.
