Marjorie Jean-Paul has over 25 years of experience working in mission-driven organizations.  She has worked in the corporate and private sectors over the course of her career designing programs around strategic development, communications, marketing, and promotions to increase resources for nonprofit organizations.

For the past 15 years, she has worked with best-in-class private independent schools as a senior administrator responsible for major gift fundraising - capital and endowment campaigns, annual fund and events, alumni relations, and board development. In addition to her role at private schools, she served on the Diversity Committee, volunteered on the Planning Committee for the annual New York Association of Independent School Institutional Advancement Conference for the past three years where she was instrumental in guiding topic selection, securing speakers for the conference and structuring the conference. Recently, she was involved with organizing an online conference for more than 200 advancement professionals from private schools around the state of New York. The topic was on the role of advancement professionals in supporting work around racial equity and diversity, as well as exploring practices that create more inclusive communities for students, their family and faculty.  

Most recently, she was appointed to chair a 70-person committee tasked with developing a community engagement and inclusion plan. Her planning, organizational and relational skills were crucial in successfully managing the group and resulting in a plan to guide the work of the school around faculty DEI professional development, recruitment, anti-racist school culture, programming, and activities.

Marjorie co-founded a group for Black advancement professionals at private independent schools in the New York metro area.  The Black@ movement at many private independent schools inspired Marjorie to create this group.  As schools are called to account for the impact of the ongoing anti-Black racism that has caused pain and trauma for generations of students, this group not only provides support for students and the members but also to the schools. Black Advancement Networking Group (BANG) was created to discuss how to forge a path together and find out how to best be of service and support to each other and resources for our school. 

A New Yorker at heart, she was born and raised in the metro New York area.  Marjorie currently residents in Nassau County with her husband and two children. She is a graduate of Cornell University with a BS in Human Development and Family Studies and the New School, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy she earned an MS in nonprofit management and a certificate in Organization Management and Change. She recently completed the diversity, equity, and inclusion certificate program from Cornell.