Marianne Potvin previously worked as a graduate student associate at Harvard University’s Weather Center for International Affairs and as a graduate fellow at the Harvard EJ Safra Center for Ethics. Potvin is a licensed architect and served as a delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq. She has a master’s in architecture from the University of Montréal, a master’s in design studies from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and received her PhD from Harvard University.