Marta is the Co-Director at the Academy for Systems Change, where she helps coordinate research and content development building on Donella Meadows’ work. With a doctorate in forest ecology, over the years Marta has become interested in economies that prioritize communities and nature.

Before this position, Marta worked as a Research Professor for 10 years at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at University of Vermont. There she taught and did research on how nature contributes to people’s wellbeing through services such as water purification by wetlands, or climate regulation by forests. In her international consulting with the United Nations Development Programme Marta has worked to build capacity for local management of protected areas. Marta brings a systemic understanding of complex social and environmental issues and experience as an educator, group facilitator, researcher, author, and dancer. She is a committed action learner of liberatory and justice work. In 2021 Marta published her first novel L’ Anatra Sposa (The Wood Duck) set in her ancestral home of the Po River Valley, in northern Italy. Marta’s current home is on the New Hampshire side of the Connecticut River, USA.

• Location: New Hampshire, USA