About Marie Shanley
Online Advocacy
For seven years I hosted two live-streamed shows a week, gaming or interviewing mental health subject matter experts, including Q+A using questions coming in live from viewers.
That experience built up a Twitch Partnership, a blog, a book, public speaking engagements, industry panels, MIT-published research and more.
Today, I continue to be an active member of online mental health and local equity non-profit boards.
Professional Career
While at Sesame Workshop (the Non-profit behind Sesame Street), I was lucky enough to lead an inspiring 6-person social impact content development team as their editorial program manager.
In partnership with giants like Google.org, Walmart.org, PNC, the US Dept of Defense and adorable Muppets, the team delivered industry leading, award-winning content on subjects like mental health, military family mental health, parental addiction, grief, digital well-being and more. Helping caregivers from the US and across the world build a better offline world for children, inspired me to want to build a better digital future for children too. So I set out to combine my offline and online tenure into a way to accomplish just that.
That commitment to accessible education, helping people make the best choices they know how is what guides me forward in my career— since my time at science publisher Wiley, to WebMD, as Mxiety, at Sesame and through this day.