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Marian joined Population Connection as a Field Fellow in 2007. She has an MSc in Population and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Psychology (with a minor in Child Development and Family Relations) from the University of Maine.

She is originally from Maine, where she currently lives with her husband and their dog, Penny, a feisty little chihuahua-Yorkie mix. Her two late beagles are never far from her thoughts—they were terribly behaved, but she misses them dearly!

Marian has been a clinic escort since 2007, first at an independent clinic in Falls Church, Virginia, and, since 2012, at Planned Parenthood in Portland, Maine. She also served on the Board of Directors of SAFE, Maine’s abortion fund, for five years, most of that time in executive roles.

Marian’s hobbies include attending concerts and music festivals, hiking with her dog, reading fiction, and volunteering for her local wildlife rehab.

Olivia joined Population Connection in 2022. She has been working in the population field since 2018 and loves that it combines her two greatest passions: conservation and women’s rights.

Olivia holds an MSc and a BSc in Zoology and has been working in environmental communications since she graduated in 2014, including for Population Matters, Friends of the Earth Scotland, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

She enjoys the diversity of strategic communications across multiple platforms and distilling complex information for a variety of audiences.

In her free time, Olivia likes to immerse herself in nature, spend time with animals, dance, and practice yoga.