Marion Babcock

A passion for quality healthcare and education brought Marion Babcock to the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC. Excellent dental care brought her family to Mary’s Center. Suffering a major health incident and enduring a long recovery resulted in gaps in her children’s dental care. The dedicated staff welcomed her four children for x-rays, exams, and cleaning. As a member of the Community Engagement Council for the past two years, she has channeled the experience of parenting through health trauma into civic engagement. With Mary’s Center and the Mayor’s Office of Disability Rights, she co-created and co-facilitated a public health roundtable centered on the needs of the disabled community in a post pandemic world. The benefit was a deeper understanding of the unique approaches necessary to address the variety of conditions and the time-cost to the caregiver.

As an education advocate, Marion believes that the power of dialogue builds need-awareness among multi-stakeholders and is the key lever for creating a positive social impact. She has served as organizer and moderator of the DC Local School Advisory Team (LSAT) Collective, a learning and support network for parents and teachers serving as elected school leaders across DC Public Schools. She currently serves on the Stakeholder Advisory Board for the Deputy Mayor of Education’s initiative: Education Through Employment Pathways, a public-facing information effort about the impact of education and workforce programs on employment and economic mobility.
She obtained her Batchelor Degree from the University of Scranton and was trained in action-focused dialogue by the Sustained Dialogue Institute. Marion also received her Certification in Executive Leadership Coaching from the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, George Washington University.

Excited about addressing the gap between what we know and the desired possibilities we want to achieve, Marion continually develops her creativity. As a ceramic artist, working with clay reminds her of the process and power of transformation.