Marion is a first-year Public History M.A. student concentrating on early American history and historic preservation. Their research focuses on how enslavement in the Antebellum South influenced social categories such as race and gender. After working as a youth coordinator for teenagers recently released from correctional confinement, Marion has also become interested in carceral studies and the social category of child and childhood.

Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Marion graduated from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in Black Studies and a B.A. in History. During their undergraduate studies, Marion was a research assistant and student involvement coordinator for the Black Studies Department working on a variety of archival research projects including the successful preservation of a historic Black building in Columbia, Missouri. They were also a research assistant for the History Department working on a feature-length documentary aimed at preserving the works of Senegal’s “first female contemporary artist” Younousse Seye. Outside of the university, Marion was a preservation intern and volunteer for the Missouri State Historical Society.