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Marcia Parker
Marcia Parker joined The New York Times in June 2022 as Vice President, Philanthropic Partnerships. She leads a team that develops newsroom initiatives that have a shared public service mission that are funded by foundations and in partnership with nonprofits.
Before she joined The Times, Marcia spent more than five years as the publisher and chief operating officer of CalMatters, a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization that covers California and its state government. Prior to that Marcia worked as an editorial director for Patch’s West Coast local news sites and helped launch the Center for Investigative Reporting’s California Watch site.
She also served as an assistant dean at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s San Francisco campus and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is the board chair of the Institute for Nonprofit News, and serves on the boards of the New York Times Communites Fund and the Journalism Refugees Education Fund.
Marcia holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.
