Marta brings a lifetime of experience in the performing arts  to her work at the Whidbey Institute.  She is a facilitator of movement-based expressive arts and holds a masters in psychology. She sees the creative process as a bridge to helping us understand life experiences and build more intimate and trusting relationships which can lead to individual and collective healing.

Her work history is an eclectic mix which includes Sign Language interpreting, co-founding Calyx Community Arts School, working at the Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services, managing the Power of Hope summer camp, choreographing musicals, landscaping, and short-term stints in China, Dominican Republic, Nepal, and Jenin, Palestine where she taught expressive arts classes to students of The Freedom Theatre. Her most profound journey is that as a parent to her now teenage son.