Marlena is Greater Public’s Marketing Coordinator, focused on maintaining member data and supporting the organization’s marketing efforts and operations. She has ten years of experience in data management, fundraising operations, and talent development in the nonprofit sector, and has been a public media viewer/listener all her life.

Marlena earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Arizona State University, where she participated in the Borderlands Initiative. Her journalistic work has been published in the Tucson Sentinel, East Valley Tribune, and One Day Magazine.