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MARJORIE L. SHARE

Life and Work
Marjorie Lynn Share is an author, educator, editor, and creator of profit-non-profit partnerships and entrepreneurial ventures.

Included in her work on are: (1) a program which facilitates visits by public school students to local working farms --where, among other things, the students plant,care for, pick, cook and eat their own food); ; (2) EcoHealth 101, a web-based teaching and activity resource which transforms a graduate seminar on the environment and human health into a web-based resource and teaching tool aimed at middle and high school students, and their teachers and families--the seminar was initially offered at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and is now hosted by the University of Wisconsin, Madison. ; and (3) a book, Animal Tracks, published by the National Wildlife Federation;.

At the Smithsonian Institution's Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES),Share served as Director of Education, overseeing more than 200 educational projects for national and international distribution to schools, museums, cultural centers, universities, stores and homes. While at the Smithsonian, she initiated partnerships with corporations such as CBS Software, TIME, Fisher Price Toys, McDonald's, Apple, IBM, as well as government and cultural organizations in the U.S. and overseas. She has traveled worldwide, conducting workshops and seminars.

She also served as coordinator of exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery.

Her published work includes analysis of artistic media including photography, ; quilting; and collages,, as well as architecture and construction, , and engineering and design

During the planning,design and construction of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, Share served as a Special Consultant to the Founding Director and first Director of Education; among the issues she addressed was how the Museum should address the needs and vulnerabilities of young (from pre-school through high school) visitors. Solutions adopted (and still utilized) by the Museum include raising the eye-level of certain particularly troubling components of the Permanent Exhibition, and a permanent Children's Exhibition, designed to be straightforward and to stimulate conversations--without elements that could be visually shocking.

At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, her work focused on training and evaluation-related issues including health care for the homeless.

Share was a founder of the Washington Area Women's Foundation, and currently serves on its Honorary Council. She is an adviser to the William James Foundation, , and served as a member of the Community Sustainable Food System Network. Other boards on which she has served include the Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies. Her work has been recognized by the Capital Area Food Bank. . She was graduated by the University of Rochester, and holds an MA from Johns Hopkins University.

Select Publications

 * Animal Tracks
 * Bee Quilting
 * Joseph and Anna's Time Capsule: A Legacy of Old Jewish Prague (with Chaya M. Burstein, Linda A. Altshuler) Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
 * Picture It!
 * School Division, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
 * Taking It 'Off the Wall'