The Public Welfare Foundation announced today that Alise Marshall has joined its team as Director of Strategy and New Ventures.
Marshall comes to the Foundation with a strong history of advocating for justice and opportunity for people in need, and a proven track record of leading system reform for transformative change. In this new role she will work with foundation leadership and programmatic staff to identify new levers for impact and build cross-sector collaborations for social change.
Most recently, Marshall served as Senior Manager for Economic Opportunity at Walmart Foundation where she oversaw the Foundation’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion portfolio, among others. Marshall led the strategic design and management of a combined $10 million philanthropic portfolio at Walmart Foundation dedicated to accelerating impact for new majority communities (people of color, the LGBTQIA community, individuals with disabilities, and women and girls).
Prior to joining Walmart Foundation, Marshall spent six years in the Obama administration. She last served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of the Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education where she managed the development of the Department’s strategic plan and led efforts to create transformative impact in low/moderate income communities. Marshall was on the launch team for the President’s My Brother’s Keeper Federal Task Force and managed its policy apparatus, designing solutions to expand access to opportunity for and address barriers experienced by boys and young men of color. She also led the administration’s Rethink Discipline effort to encourage more effective policies to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and served on the Second Chance Pell selection committee providing Pell Grants to incarcerated students.
Marshall is a native of Shelbyville, KY and a graduate of the University of Kentucky.
