Marilyn is a public relations consultant whose clients include the Colorado Department of Education, Denver Public Schools, and Jefferson County Public Schools. She also has served as an adjunct professor of public relations management for Colorado State University. Marilyn is now a senior project director with Schoolhouse Communications, a communications firm that focuses on K-12 and higher education.

She retired after 20 years as manager of communications services for Jefferson County Public Schools, Colorado’s largest school district. Her responsibilities included crisis communications; media relations; publications; internal communications; community relations; and communications counseling, training, and planning. She took a lead communications role in the Columbine High School tragedy.

Marilyn has served on audit teams for two North Central Association high school accreditation projects, a private school accreditation team, and school district communications programs.

She is co-author of Building School Communities, Strategies for Leaders, which received a first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s 2001 Communications Contest. She has written articles for national publications and presented workshops across the country on communications topics.

Marilyn holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Colorado at Denver and a bachelor’s degree in foreign languages from Brooklyn College, New York.