Marian is a 2004 UNB Nursing and a 2006 Atlantic School of Theology Masters of Divinity graduate. She was ordained a priest in January 2007.
Marian currently serves as coordinator of the Diocesan Environment Network (DEN), Anglican Diocese of NS & PEI. DEN’s mission: To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth. She is a monthly columnist in the Diocesan Times and an active member of the Council of Canadians and For the Love of Creation, a national ecumencial group.
Marian served as the Anglican Church of Canada representative to Kairos Canada, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and on the board of Directors of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund. With a background in community and co-operative development locally and internationally, she worked in addiction services and with vulnerable people and has presented locally, regionally, nationally and internationally on food security, gender and environmental issues.
Attendee of both the 2019 Indigenous and Faith Leaders Retreat on the Climate Crisis & 2023 Thinkers Reunion: From the Great Unraveling Towards a Great Turning.