MARILYN CASSELMAN is a writer, director and activist. In 2006 she started The Freeborn Project to promote and expand feminist knowledge and principles to mainstream women through seminars and speaking engagements based on her book, TALKING THE WALK, The Grassroots Language of Feminism © 2008.

Marilyn has had a long career on the creative side of the entertainment business and has made her mark as a management, marketing and sales guru as well. She was founding president of New York Women in Film and Television, the preeminent entertainment industry association for women in New York City.

The following is a partial list of companies, organizations, publications, productions and theater companies with which she has worked:

Alberta Film & Television Awards 2000
American Association of Medical Technologists
American Documentary Films
Circle-in-the-Square
Earth Summit Times
Holocaust Awareness Institute
Impact Films
Inferno Films
Instant Shakespeare Folio Marathon
McGill University; Centre for Research & Teaching on Women
National Audubon Society
Philip Bareiss Contemporary Galleries
Richard Price Television Associates
Ronald S. Lauder Foundation
Taos News
University of Montreal, Graduate English Department
Warner Communications
Williamstown Theater Festival
Women's Art Society of Montreal; McCord Museum
World Festival of Entertainment, EXPO 67.

She has recently completed a program in conflict and dispute resolution at Concordia University in Montreal and has several projects in development.

MEMBER:
New York Women in Film & Television
Canadian Political Science Association
United States Aikido Federation