Marian leads the civic education and engagement programs at the Cornell Brooks Center on Global Democracy. She is an alum of Cornell (BA Economics and Government), University of Oxford (MSc in Latin American Studies), University of Pennsylvania (Master of Public Administration), and SAIS Johns Hopkins University (Doctor of International Affairs). As a practitioner and scholar in democracy, multilateralism, politics, and Latin American and Caribbean studies, her research interests currently focus on the role of diplomacy and multilateralism in promoting and defending democracy, on international mediation and negotiations, on democracy renewal in Latin America, and on emerging models of democratic civic education and engagement. Her book “Venezuelan Negotiations: From Deadlock to Collapse (2014-2024)”, published by Springer (forthcoming March 2026), discusses why negotiation processes failed to resolve the Venezuelan crisis, and proposes an analytical framework to explain the intractability of contemporary conflicts.