Marisa Mazria Katz is the Director of Media Initiatives for the public art non-profit Creative Time. She came to the organization in 2011 as the founding editor of Creative Time Reports. As a journalist she has contributed to publications that include The New York Times, Financial Times, Time, The Guardian, Vogue and the Wall Street Journal. In addition to her writing, Marisa ran a US State Department-sponsored program in Casablanca, Morocco, for four years that taught marginalized youth journalism and blogging.