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•  Vice President of External Relations, Outreach and Development for Delaware Multicultural and Civic Organization (DEMCO), a company she helped found 25 years ago.

• Trauma Academy Coordinator and a member of  Wesley College  Health and Behavioral Sciences Leadership Team, Delaware State University

 

• 18 year-Faculty member in the History, Political Science, and Philosophy Department and the Global Societies Program at Delaware State University

 

• Global Liaison, the Global Institute for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Global Societies’ Program,  Delaware State University

 

• Founder and organizer of   Leandra Casson Marshall Ministries, Inc., an international evangelistic ministry

 

• First Vice President- Interdenominational Minister’s Alliance for Dover & Vicinity (IMA), Interdenominational Minister’s Alliance for Dover & Vicinity, an organization that represents 17 churches.

 

• Special Assistant to the President of the Interdenominational Minister’s Alliance for Dover & Vicinity, Interdenominational Minister’s Alliance for Dover & Vicinity

 

•  Delaware State  News Stars of Delaware (Statewide Competition) Person of the Year Nominee 2019 and 2020

 

• Current Assistant Secretary and Chair  of Planning Committee, IMA

 

• First African American woman ever to receive the British Council’s Chevening Scholarship to study in the United Kingdom.

 

•  Recipient, of Lincoln University’s coveted “Rising Star” award for outstanding alumni.

 

• Recipient, Women and Children Transformation Ministries, International Community Service Award (October 2019)

 

• Chairman, Friends of Capital School District Referendum Committee (Organized the passage of a 130-million-dollar referendum) (2019)

 

•  Recipient, Capital School District Board’s Outstanding Community Service Award Recipient

 

•  Recipient, Delaware State University Kent County Alumni Association Community Service Award (2018)

 

•  Recipient, DEMCO Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)

 

• Recipient, 2005 State of Delaware Trailblazer’s Award voted upon by 4 of the 5 state agencies, headed by the Delaware Secretary of State’s office.

 

• One of the principal organizers of the 2003 Affirmative Action March on Washington where over 50, 000 people participated.   Prof. Marshall had the honor to address the crowd on the steps of the Supreme Court while the famous case, Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), a landmark case was argued in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School.

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• Organized an International African Summit where her keynote speaker was the notable Ambassador Andrew Young.  The International African Summit drew some of the most prominent thinkers and activists of our time, notably the prolific writer and psychologist Asa Hilliard, Njoki Njehu, Executive director, 50 years is Enough, Marie Clark Brille, National Coordinator, Jubilee Network and Salih Booker, Executive Director of Africa Action formerly the Washington Office on Civil Rights.

 

• Received her secular education from the following institutions: Lincoln University, University of Delaware, and the University of Kent at Canterbury in Canterbury, England, United Kingdom.  Professor Marshall received numerous fellowships to study Chinese and Russian Languages. Professor Marshall studied at Kalinin Polytechnical Institute, Kalinin University, in the Former Soviet Union, and the Mandarin Training Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, the Republic of China and at Norwich University’s Intensive Russian Language School.

 

• Received her religious education from the following institutions: Palmer Theological Seminary, Eastern University, in Pennsylvania, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia, Calvary Baptist Institute, Dover, Delaware and Victory College of Ministry, Stone Mountain, Georgia. 

 

•  A Republican Campaign Strategist officially trained by the United States of America Republican Party National Committee.(Registered  Independent)

 

• Delegate to a NATO Conference in Brussels to develop a course of action for the UN conducted Peacekeeping missions in Bosnia. 

 

•  Founding Pastor, Manna Christian Fellowship Church of Dover in Dover, Delaware

 

• Member, Ministerial Staff, Greater Christian Life Church in Dover, Delaware

 

• Former Associate Director, Delaware State University Center for Global Africa

 

• Former Outreach director and a Research Generalist for the Delaware State University’s University Center for Economic Development and International Trade (UCEDIT). 

 

•  A part of the United States national committee that wrote and influenced the passage of the Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIV/AIDS Act in which President George W. Bush signed into law.  This committee also successfully lobbied for the inclusion of a debt relief measure. 

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• Prof. Marshall has traveled extensively to over 25 countries and has lived in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Asia.