Marcia Avner

MARCIA AVNER is a nonprofit consultant with more than 40 years of experience in advocacy strategy, lobbying, curriculum development, and facilitation.

Avner served as public policy director with the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and as an assistant professor in nonprofit management at Hamline University. She holds a B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.A. from the University of Arkansas.

When she’s not writing, Avner works with nonprofits, foundations, and academic centers on initiatives to advance advocacy and increase activism. She serves as a faculty member and coordinator of the Nonprofit Concentration in the Masters in Advocacy and Political Leadership Program at the University of Minnesota–Duluth, and has served on more than 20 nonprofit boards and advisory committees.

Marcia Avner’s books are published by Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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