Marianna is Director of External Relations at the Foundation for Economic Education aimed at teaching the humane value and ethical principles of free markets and entrepreneurship to FEE’s student audience. She is a Ukrainian immigrant, raised in an entrepreneurial family, and has developed a life passion of promoting the ideas and virtues of liberty, strong character, personal responsibility, and private enterprise as a foundation required for human achievement. Marianna has served as a Russian instructor for the US Air Force and is a fierce advocate and defender of homeschooling rights. For fun, Marianna is an accomplished ballroom and Latin dancer and instructor. She also enjoys international travel, studying parenting and educational psychology as well as Objectivist philosophy. Marianna holds degrees in Communications, Russian, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Aspen University.