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Marsha WillisSenior Research Analyst

410.455.6383mwillis@hilltop.umbc.edu

Marsha Willis, a senior research analyst, works with The Hilltop Institute's executive director on organizational advancement.This includes strategic communications, new business development, event planning, public relations, marketing, and strategic planning to promote The Hilltop Institute brand and mission.As Hilltop's lead professional writer, she is the primary author of major written products that are initiated by Hilltop (as distinguished from deliverables written for clients).Specifically, she prepares and coordinates proposals for submission to potential sponsors/clients and funders; annual reports and brochures that describe Hilltop's activities; articles; news releases; web content; and similar materials that advance Hilltop's outreach, marketing, and business development activities.She has primary leadership responsibility for project management activities associated with Hilltop's annual health policy symposia.She also provides executive staff support to Hilltop's Research Affinity Group, coordinating the proposal process.

Ms. Willis joined The Hilltop Institute with extensive experience in applied research, fund development, and policy analysis.As owner and principal of Goodwrite Consulting, she provided management consulting services (strategic planning, organizational development, service and service system development, funding development, and training) to various social service and government agencies and secured over $8.5 million in mostly federal funding for non-profit clients.Prior to that, Ms. Willis held two director positions at the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration.As director of the Office of Criminal Justice Programs, she developed the Tennessee Drug and Violent Crime Strategy, managed office projects, prepared budget, managed five federal Department of Justice grants, and trained sub-grantees on how to write and manage grants.As director of the Office of Program Assessment and Support, she negotiated and administered all of the children's residential contracts for the state, developed and implemented program standards, and performed a statewide review of children's services.She was a children's program specialist with the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in both Tennessee and Kentucky, where she worked to improve the service system for children and youth with severe emotional problems and their families.

Ms. Willis has published many monographs, including Great Starts: Project Evaluation Literature Review (2005), Meeting the Needs of Nashville's Young Women with Alcohol and/or Drug Involvement (2004), and Managed Care and Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances: Year 2 Evaluation Report (1999).

Ms. Willis holds an M.S.W. from the University of Kentucky School of Social Work and a B.A. in English from the University of California at Los Angeles.She is a lifetime member of the Alpha Gamma chapter of Alpha Delta Mu, the national social work honor society.

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MARSHA WILLIS Senior Research Analyst

Phone: (410) 455-6383Email: mwillis@chpdm.umbc.edu

Marsha Willis, a senior research analyst, works with the Center's executive director on new business development.She acts as the Center's lead professional writer and is the primary author of major written products that are Center-initiated (as distinguished from deliverables written by researchers for existing clients).Specifically, she prepares and coordinates proposals for submission to potential sponsors/clients, annual reports and brochures that describe the Center's activities, articles, web content, and similar materials that advance the Center's outreach, marketing, and business development activities.She also has primary responsibility for project management activities associated with the Center's annual symposiums.

Ms. Willis joins the Center with extensive experience in applied research, fund development, and policy analysis.She was owner and principal of Goodwrite Consulting, where she provided management consulting services (strategic planning, service and service system development, funding development, and training) to various social service agencies and secured over $8.5 million in mostly federal funding for non-profit clients.Prior to that, Ms. Willis held two director positions at the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration.As director of the Office of Criminal Justice Programs, she developed the Tennessee Drug and Violent Crime Strategy, managed office projects, prepared budget, managed five federal Department of Justice grants, and trained sub-grantees on how to write and manage grants.As director of the Office of Program Assessment and Support, she negotiated and administered all of the children's residential contracts for the state, developed and implemented program standards, and performed a statewide review of children's services.She was a children's program specialist with the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in both Tennessee and Kentucky, where she worked to improve the service system for children and youth with severe emotional problems and their families.

Ms. Willis has published many monographs, including Great Starts: Project Evaluation Literature Review (2005), Meeting the Needs of Nashville's Young Women with Alcohol and/or Drug Involvement (2004), and Managed Care and Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances: Year 2 Evaluation Report (1999).

Ms. Willis holds an M.S.W. from the University of Kentucky School of Social Work and a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

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Customer Review: Marsha Willis is a gifted writer.Her skill with the written word makes "The Ethan Chronicles" truly a work of literary nonfiction.It is written in third person voice (Marsha calls herself Ann) and one feels he or she is reading fiction.Ann's son Ethan is killed in an accident when he is hit br

"I liked the networking," exclaimed Marsha Willis of Goodwrite Consulting.

Marsha Willis is a gifted writer.She skillfully weaves the incredible story of bringing ,#38;#34;Matt,#38;#34; to trial and the anguish of her grief in losing her only child.As a bereaved parent myself, I related so strongly with Marsha and was relieved to read words that gave voice to my own grief journey.
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Thank you Marsha.You have offered us education despite a bitter experience.You, and all of your loved ones, have maintained compassion and love of life.
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Marsha has truly wrung so very much love, truth and wisdom from the worst of nightmares.I was moved, of course, reading of her profound love for Ethan.She does Ethan such an honor to keep his memory so alive in the hearts and minds of us lucky readers.I am also touched by her incredible affection for Mark, Doug, Jennifer and the others whose lives were impacted.She treated them with such tenderness.
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Ms. Willis so eloquently combines the personal and emotional details of her experience with the reality of the justice system and human failings.
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Marsha, you, Ethan and the rest of your family have become a part of our life, and we wish you much success in getting this book out to parents and young people.
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Thank you, Marsha, for touching my life and my heart with the reinforcement that every day is precious and to be enjoyed -- never to be taken for granted.
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Marsha did an amazing thing in this book.She took the most unbearable event possible and walked me through it with her, allowing me to believe that one CAN make it to the other side of this kind of tragedy.
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I am so impressed that Marsha Willis could put her feelings on paper andallow me to feel them.
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Marsha, you put it all so clearly and what got to me was your honesty in saying how you were really affected through the process of healing.

Marsha Willis, Senior Research Analyst The Hilltop Institute
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Marsha Willis Senior Research Analyst

410.455.6383 mwillis@hilltop.umbc.edu

Marsha Willis, a senior research analyst, works with The Hilltop Institute's executive director on organizational advancement. This includes strategic communications, new business development, event planning, public relations, marketing, and strategic planning to promote The Hilltop Institute brand and mission. As Hilltop's lead professional writer, she is the primary author of major written products that are initiated by Hilltop (as distinguished from deliverables written for clients). Specifically, she prepares and coordinates proposals for submission to potential sponsors/clients and funders; annual reports and brochures that describe Hilltop's activities; articles; news releases; web content; and similar materials that advance Hilltop's outreach, marketing, and business development activities. She has primary leadership responsibility for project management activities associated with Hilltop's annual health policy symposia. She also provides executive staff support to Hilltop's Research Affinity Group, coordinating the proposal process.

Ms. Willis joined The Hilltop Institute with extensive experience in applied research, fund development, and policy analysis. As owner and principal of Goodwrite Consulting, she provided management consulting services (strategic planning, organizational development, service and service system development, funding development, and training) to various social service and government agencies and secured over $8.5 million in mostly federal funding for non-profit clients. Prior to that, Ms. Willis held two director positions at the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration. As director of the Office of Criminal Justice Programs, she developed the Tennessee Drug and Violent Crime Strategy, managed office projects, prepared budget, managed five federal Department of Justice grants, and trained sub-grantees on how to write and manage grants. As director of the Office of Program Assessment and Support, she negotiated and administered all of the children's residential contracts for the state, developed and implemented program standards, and performed a statewide review of children's services. She was a children's program specialist with the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in both Tennessee and Kentucky, where she worked to improve the service system for children and youth with severe emotional problems and their families.

Ms. Willis has published many monographs, including Great Starts: Project Evaluation Literature Review (2005), Meeting the Needs of Nashville's Young Women with Alcohol and/or Drug Involvement (2004), and Managed Care and Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances: Year 2 Evaluation Report (1999).

Ms. Willis holds an M.S.W. from the University of Kentucky School of Social Work and a B.A. in English from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is a lifetime member of the Alpha Gamma chapter of Alpha Delta Mu, the national social work honor society.

Marsha Willis, Senior Research Analyst