Adj Marshall

Adj is an EDIJ trainer, writer, and advocate for socioeconomic and educational equity with over 15 years of experience facilitating workshops, training, and dialogue series on first-generation advocacy and cross-class communication. Her work has been published in the anthologies Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism in Contemporary America and the Intersection: Understanding and Supporting First-Generation Students.

In 2012 Adj founded the First Gen Summit, the oldest cross-campus gathering of first-generation low-income (FLI) college students which she continues to lead today. This fall marks the Summit’s 11th year anniversary! As the Interim Director of HR and EDIJ Manager at Greentown Labs, Adj is responsible for shaping organizational EDIJ policy and strategy, in addition to sharing best practices with the 200+ climate change-focused startups housed within the organization. She has previously worked at Phillips Academy Andover, College Visions, Head Start, Tufts University, and MIT.

Being the first person in her family to attend college, Adj became a first-generation college graduate earning her BA while supporting her brothers’ pursuits of associate degrees. Her experience growing up as a member of a chronically poor, and often homeless, single-parent family is what led her to this work. Adj earned her first MA in Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage from Brown University and her second in Intercultural Leadership and Management from the School for International Training.