Marianne Connolly is an environmental consultant with over 30 years of government experience and now works with the staff of Boston Harbor Now as a member of the Stone Living Lab Project Team. She spent most of her professional career with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, the Metropolitan District Commission, and Coastal Zone Management focused on environmental planning and review, regulatory affairs, historic preservation, public policy, community engagement, and governmental affairs.
A lifelong resident of Boston, Marianne is a graduate of Boston State College (now UMass Boston) where she formulated her own independent environmental science and urban planning undergraduate degree, and the University of Massachusetts in Boston where she received a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies.