Marnie Glickman

Experience

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  Small Fish Services

  Jan 1994 - now

  Public Interest Advocate and Organizer

  Marnie’s reputation for working hard and getting results has earned her positions working for progressive elected officials and candidates, including Congresswoman Darlene Hooley (OR), Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse (OR), US Senator Paul Wellstone (MN), Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY), Ralph Nader, Secretary of State Steve Simon (MN), Mayor of Fairfax Larry Bragman (CA), and Marin County Board of Education Trustee Felicia Agrelius (CA). She also worked for EMILY’s List, a national organization dedicated to electing more pro-choice women to office.Marnie was an author of the Green New Deal in 2010 featuring policies like creating millions of green union jobs, setting ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, single-payer Medicare-for-all, and electoral reforms. Show less

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  One With Heart Martial Arts

  Jan 1995 - now

  Martial Arts Instructor and Student

  Marnie is a first degree black belt and martial arts student. Marnie currently teaches pukulan cun tao silat to elementary-school aged children. In the past, she taught adults and teens. Her teacher is Janesa Kruse.

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  Commercial Alert

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2007

  National Engagement Director

  Marnie worked with groups across the country to keep public schools free from corporate commercialism. She helped parents and teachers replace junk food in schools with nutritious food. She identified and exposed a variety of ways that corporations pay school districts to advertise to students, from sports field naming rights to video ads inside school buses to M&M product placements in mathematics textbooks. She organized a national coalition of hundreds of nonprofits, university professors, and medical professionals to advocate for an end to direct-to-consumer drug marketing of prescription drugs. The coalition supported federal legislation called, "Public Health Protection Act." Show less

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  Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2017

  National Engagement Director

  Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir is a singing performance-activist group and a nonprofit organization. Marnie helped to build a national coalition of nonprofits to lobby local governments to stop using Monsanto’s toxic Roundup herbicide. Using public records requests, Marnie created a National Map of Poisoned Parks and Playgrounds which showed where public spaces were sprayed with Roundup in order to help parents make informed choices, and pressure local governments to stop using these poisonous chemicals. In 2021, New York City and New York State banned the use of Roundup.The group’s past performances included opening for Neil Young on the “Monsanto Years” tour, serving as Water Defenders at the Standing Rock Reservation to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline, and eating an Organic Thanksgiving Dinner at Monsanto World Headquarters. Show less

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  Miller Creek School District

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2019

  School Board Trustee

  In 2015, Marnie was elected to serve a 4-year term school board term while living in San Rafael, California, in the Dixie School District, a district named after the pro-slavery Confederacy during the Civil War. In her role as a Dixie School Board Trustee, Marnie led a vast racial justice movement to elevate the voices of people of color and retire the racist name from the district. The anti-racism campaign was successful, and the school district was renamed Miller Creek in 2019.Marnie worked to increase public participation in her school district’s Green Committee, Wellness Committee, and Site Councils – all strides toward making constituents more informed and empowered in her district. She spearheaded a local campaign committee of parents, administrators, and teachers to secure stable school funding. Show less

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  Friends of Marnie Glickman

  Feb 2024 - now

  Candidate for Portland City Council District 2

  Marnie Glickman is a changemaker and a leader with experience as a local elected official. When she first moved to Portland in 1992, she fell in love with our city’s independent streak, creative people, and abundance of trees, and adopted Portland as her home. She's worked for 30 years to protect people, places, and the planet. Now she's ready to help make Portland a safer and more livable place for everyone.Marnie has the skills to be an effective legislator on Portland's new 12 person City Council: honest communication, cooperation, and compromise. She is an organizer, so she knows how to deliver excellent constituent services to the people of N and NE Portland. Show less