Ann Garretson Marshall

Ann Garretson Marshall was an army brat who spent her childhood on military bases in the United States and Italy. After graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder, she taught high school English in Glendale, Arizona. The following year, she married Terry Marshall, and they taught English in the Philippines as Peace Corps volunteers and later served as Peace Corps country codirectors in the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, and Tuvalu. Back in the States, they worked side by side as community organizers and activists in Colorado. Ann earned an MS in communication arts from Cornell University and has thirty years' experience as a writer, editor, and community-government go-between for issues related to nuclear and hazardous waste cleanup. She is also a trained mediator.