MDC
Marilyn Boutte is an experienced Program Coordinator at MDC, where responsibilities include managing an equity-centered fellowship for BIPOC nonprofit leaders and supporting various community initiatives. Marilyn has held leadership roles in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., overseeing program execution and securing grants, and has interned at various organizations, focusing on community-based maternal health, youth development, and criminal justice reform. Marilyn's educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, complementing a strong foundation in program design, facilitation, and community engagement.
MDC
MDC is a nonprofit founded in 1967 and based in Durham, N.C., that equips Southern leaders, institutions, and communities to improve economic mobility and advance equity. We bring together foundations, nonprofits, and leaders from government, business, and the grassroots to illuminate data that highlight deeply rooted Southern challenges and help them find systemic, community solutions. Our approach uses research, consensus-building, and programs that connect education, employment, and economic security to help communities foster prosperity by creating an “infrastructure of opportunity”—the aligned systems and supports that can boost everyone, particularly those who’ve been left behind, to higher rungs on the economic ladder. Since 1996, MDC’s landmark State of the South reports have shaped the economic agenda of the region, shining a spotlight on historic trends, deep-rooted inequities, and solutions that offer rural and urban communities a path forward. MDC is supported by grants and contracts from foundations, governments, and the private sector. Learn more at www.mdcinc.org.