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Marianne Cufone is an environmental attorney and professor based in New Orleans, Louisiana and Florida. She is one of the leading experts on offshore ocean aquaculture (OOA) and recirculating farming (including hydroponics, land-based aquaculture, and aquaponics) in the United States.

Early Life and Education
As a child in the 1970s and 80s, Cufone spent summers on the Jersey Shore, where she saw firsthand the effects of environmental neglect. Growing up in a working-class, single-parent immigrant family in the New York City suburbs that grew their own food, she developed an early appreciation for the importance of utilizing whatever space is available to grow healthy, fresh food.

Cufone received a B.A. in English from Boston College, where she studied abroad in Australia