Client Services

Writing and Researching

Marilyn is a creative and engaging writer and researcher who enjoys learning. She utilizes technology, including mindmapping and complex database tools, to synthesize research across disciplines and bring it to popular or academic audiences. Her current work is focused in the following areas, but she is always open to new challenges:

• Articles on positive youth development, transformative learning in adolescence, youth civic engagement, servant-leadership, parent-school-community partnerships, systems-thinking, education reform.
  

• Materials that support a social or environmental mission, including research-based articles, website text, or reports to support foundation grant-making or nonprofit grant writing.

• Qualitative research and analysis, particularly narrative story-telling.

Speaking

Marilyn excels at communicating multi-disciplinary research into everyday language for a variety of audiences. She blends personal stories, provocative questions, metaphors, and cutting-edge research findings to engage and inspire. Her passionate topics include:

Developing Internal Strengths in Young People

• Drawn from research in positive youth development, including her own study, Civic Learning at the Edge: Transformative Stories of Highly Engaged Youth.
  

• Audience: Educators, parents

Youth Civic Engagement

• Drawn from research on youth civic engagement , transformative learning, and identity development, including her own study, Civic Learning at the Edge: Transformative Stories of Highly Engaged Youth.
  

• Audience: Professionals and leaders in the fields of civic engagement and citizenship education

Parent-School Community Partnerships

• Drawn from family engagement research, including her recent article: Price-Mitchell, M. (2009). Boundary Dynamics: Implications for Building Parent-School Partnerships, The School Community Journal, 19(2)
  

• Audience: Educators, parents

Consulting and Facilitating

While Marilyn devotes much more of her current time to writing, researching, and speaking, she also loves working in organizations. As time permits, she particularly enjoys working with nonprofit organizations and corporations that have social or environmental missions. Her skills include:

• Helping executive teams or nonprofit boards develop or redefine mission and purpose.
  

• Facilitating a group's efforts to define and meet the adaptive challenges facing their organization.