Cynthia Marshall

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
she / her

Cynthia has been a community organizer since 2005, and works with AIM and its sister organizations, in Maryland, including as the founding organizer of ACT. It has been an honor for her to work on many different campaigns throughout Maryland over the years to improve people's day-to-day lives.

The first major campaign was winning $30 million to build recreation centers in historic Black communities in Montgomery County. Others include crating EcoWorks, a ongoing youth conservation corps in Howard County that was established in 2012, tens of millions in funding for low-income seniors to receive care at home instead of institutionalized nursing home settings (which earned an award from AARP), state legislation to protect tens of thousands of mobile home residents, and creating the Excel Beyond the Bell Elementary program that is now in 18 low-income elementary schools, serving thousands of students every year.

She is currently working with colleagues and leaders in building our local and statewide work on climate and housing, as well as developing the Just Power Alliance, a national network with sister organizations in Wisconsin, Ohio, Massachusetts, Maryland and Washington, D.C. She has also worked on Get Out the Vote Campaigns in North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Before she started organizing, Cynthia was a Wilderness Instructor at Outward Bound. She earned a Master's degree from Harvard’s Graduate School in Education, and her B.A. at Carleton College. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two children.

Language: English (and a little Spanish, French and Hungarian)