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Marjorie Vaneskahian is a Chief Operating Officer at Allen Community Outreach and is based in Allen, Texas. She has worked as Director of Developement at Ronald McDonald House of Fort Worth and Vice President at HEB Chamber of Commerce.

Nonprofit leader, public policy professional, teacher, trainer, and lawyer. I am a people loving introvert that wants to center community and lead with an equity lens within organizations, coalitions, and society. I love working with fun, highly motivated, smart teams to build something good!

I am the Chief Executive Officer of the Surfrider Foundation and lead the world’s largest grassroots network dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves and beaches, through approaches that integrate coastal recreation with conservation. We are dynamic and committed team that defends the coast against damaging projects, promotes ongoing coastal stewardship programs, advances protective ocean and coastal policies at all levels of government, while cultivating and developing community activists and leaders. I also helped to establish the field of “Surfonomics,” which applies natural resource economic approaches to value surfing.