Marion Anderson is a Campaign Organizer with The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. In this role, Marion strategizes, organizes and leads efforts to ensure the liberation of women and girls. These efforts include drug and sex work decriminalization, divesting from police and the prison industrial complex, investing in people to promote healing, equity, inclusion and social justice, and creating what different looks like by reimagining communities. Marion is an abolitionist that understands how violence is perpetuated by the various systems in place that are designed to marginalize and oppress entire populations of people.

Marion is no stranger to the criminal legal system. As a person with many years of substance and mental health related issues, Marion spent six years in the Maine Department of Corrections, and as many years incarcerated in County Jails across the state. Those experiences have fostered an acute understanding of the many injustices carried out in the name of justice.

Before joining The National Council in January of 2022, Marion worked as a harm reductionist, housing navigator, peer support specialist and a recovery and re-entry coach for a diverse range of non-profit organizations, including Health Equity Alliance, Penobscot Community Health Care, The Together Place Peer Run Recovery Center, and Community Health and Counseling Services. Marion has also volunteered with The Church of Safe Injection, Needlepoint Sanctuary, The New England User’s Union and the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals. Further, Marion has created and facilitated creative writing workshops for incarcerated women & has collaborated with Guitar Doors (a non-profit organization) on a collective writing project with juveniles imprisoned at Long Creek.