David Marcus

David L. Marcus, who traversed five continents as a journalist, author and education consultant, is Minerva University’s Chief Communications Officer. Marcus directs the strategy to raise awareness of Minerva’s people and programs, sharing stories with global audiences.

As a newspaper bureau chief, Marcus lived for a decade in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, covering education and immigration, the environment and the drug trade. His team won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, for investigating violence against women. 

After covering schools and colleges for U.S. News magazine, he wrote two books about adolescents and education, Acceptance and What It Takes to Pull Me Through.

Marcus was a visiting fellow at Deerfield Academy and a teacher at the Academy at Swift River, both in Massachusetts. He earned his bachelor’s with honors at Brown University, where he was elected senior class president. Later, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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