Greetings!

      My name is Leandra Casson Marshall. 

I am excited that you have visited my website.

About Me

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• Current Vice President of External Relations, Outreach and Development for Delaware Multicultural and Civic Organization (DEMCO), a company she helped found 26 years ago.

• Current Trauma Academy Coordinator, Wesley College Health and Behavioral Sciences, DSU

• Current, Chief financial officer, Synergy Recovery Solutions

• Faculty member (24 years), having served in the following departments History, Political Science and Philosophy Department, Global Societies Program Delaware State University History, Political Science and Philosophy Department Lincoln University, African American Experience, Lincoln University

• Current President, National Farmers aid Relief Fund

• Founder, LCM Farmers Stress Assistance Network

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• Education:

 

• 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. 

 

 

    Accomplishments:

 

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

 

• Recipient, 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 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.

 

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

 

• 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). 

 

• 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.

 

• 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.

 

•  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. 

 

• Prof. Marshall has traveled extensively to over 30 countries and has lived in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Asia.

 

Community work

Governor Elect Matt Meyer's Care and Community Transition Subcommittee 

Member, International Economic Development Council

Member, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated

City of Wilmington Reparations Taskforce Member

 Vice Chair, City of Dover Unsheltered Working Group

 Finance Chair, City of Dover Unsheltered Working Group

 Trauma Matters Delaware -Primary, Secondary, Vicarious Trauma and Resilience Working Group Member

 First Vice President, Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Dover & Vicinity

Capital School District Trauma Taskforce Member

 First State African American Farmers Association Member

 Yale University Race and Slavery Working Group

 

"My Passions of Study" International Political Economy, International Relations, Political Science, Religion-Old Testament, Contemporary Black Preaching, Homiletics, Church Administration, African American Experience, Pan Africanism, Farmers, Trauma, Mental health and Stress Management

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