Deep Center
Marisa Pierce M.Ed. has a diverse work experience in various industries. Marisa currently serves as the Director of Youth Programs at Deep Center, a position they have held since December 2022. Prior to that, they worked as an Admission Specialist at South University from March 2022 to December 2022, where they excelled in student-focused admission recruitment and enrollment.
From January 2017 to January 2022, Marisa worked at Gilliard and Company as the Executive Director/Program Manager. In this role, they led multiple programs simultaneously, managed relationships with stakeholders, and identified areas for improvement.
Before that, Marisa served as an Assistant Property Manager at MAA from June 2015 to May 2019. Marisa was responsible for property management, tenant relations, and generating revenue through data analysis and problem-solving.
Marisa also worked at Wesleyan College from June 2013 to June 2015, where they held various roles including Recruiter, Student, and First Year Experience Program Lead. During their time at the college, they promoted and advised students on college opportunities, participated in recruitment strategies, and coordinated college orientations.
Marisa started their career as an intern at the Interactivity Foundation from May 2011 to May 2013, where they served as a peer mentor and student intern for the first year experience program. Additionally, they worked as an Associate Store Manager at Build-A-Bear Workshop from April 2007 to May 2013.
Overall, Marisa's work experience showcases their expertise in recruitment, program management, youth development, enrollment, property management, and customer service.
Marisa Pierce M.Ed. completed their education at various institutions. In 2005, they obtained their high school diploma from Herschel V. Jenkins High School. Two years later, from 2007 to 2008, they attended Savannah Arts Academy and completed two years of study in Theatre/Theater. Continuing their educational journey, Marisa pursued a Bachelor's degree in Educational Studies and Music from Wesleyan College, which they completed in 2013. Lastly, from 2016 to 2017, they obtained a Master of Education (MEd) degree in Adult Education and Community Leadership- Org Management from Georgia Southern University.
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Deep Center
Deep Center’s mission is to empower Savannah’s youth to thrive as learners, community leaders, and agents of change. Through creative writing, cultural production, and art, Deep creates platforms for the city’s youth and the village of support around them, including their families and adult allies, to share stories, engage in debates, and make Savannah a more just and equitable place. Deep’s framework is trauma-informed and culturally responsive. We promote a roots-cause model of youth and community development that works on three parallel tracks: direct service, systems change, and narrative change. Deep lifts up youth and their village, advocates for just policies, and disrupts dehumanizing narratives with firsthand stories of community members healing, growing, and thriving throw individual growth and collective action. Our Pedagogy Deep uses writing, art, and culture to help youth and families connect their learning to their lives, their lives to their communities, and their actions to transformational change. We meet people where they are, at their joys, unique funds of knowledge, and community literacies to celebrate them, challenge them to express themselves powerfully, and support their critical awareness of how their stories intersect with their neighborhood block, their city, and the world beyond. Deep’s pedagogy is assets-based, encouraging participants to use their lives, families, and communities as the primary source material for their original writing, artwork, and leadership activities. Our organizational place in the communities with which we work is defined by the values of inclusion, transparency, and institutional humility. We listen. Our Village Deep pushes beyond the barriers that keep communities from coming together for change, and we work on the assumption that storytelling and culture have the unique power to create spaces where people can meet heart-to-heart to learn, connect, create, and have hard but life-changing conversations.