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Marleen is a writer and communication specialist born in Puerto Rico, raised in Texas, and a recent transplant to Albuquerque. She is the LAII's Communication and Outreach Coordinator facilitating community outreach programming and comprehensive marketing initiatives. She also serves as Communication Chair on the MANA de Albuquerque Board of Directors. Marleen has two B.A.s from the University of Iowa in Journalism and Mass Communication and Art History and is particularly interested in cultural equity, education, policy, and the arts. When she's not in the office, you'll find her enjoying the beautiful New Mexico landscape with her dogs Havi and Santo, cooking some arroz con gandules y tostones, or rooting on the San Antonio Spurs.