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name: Catie Marron
about: Marron’s career has encompassed investment banking, magazine journalism,public service, and book publishing. Catie Marron is the creator and editor of twoanthologies published by HarperCollins which explore the value and significanceof urban public spaces: City Squares, Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance ofSquares Around the World (2016), and City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts (2013).She is currently working on a third book for HarperCollins, which centers on howgardens and the process of their creation enrich lives.She is a trustee and Chair Emeritus of The New York Public Library, where shewas Chairman of the Board from 2004 to 2011. Marron is also a trustee of Friendsof the High Line, where she was also Board Chair, Marron’s career has encompassed investment banking, magazine journalism,public service, and book publishing. Catie Marron is the creator and editor of twoanthologies published by HarperCollins which explore the value and significanceof urban public spaces: City Squares, Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance ofSquares Around the World (2016), and City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts (2013).She is currently working on a third book for HarperCollins, which centers on howgardens and the process of their creation enrich lives.She is a trustee and Chair Emeritus of The New York Public Library, where shewas Chairman of the Board from 2004 to 2011. Marron is also a trustee of Friendsof the High Line, where she was also Board Chair, and a trustee of TheMetropolitan Museum of Art and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.Her first career was in investment banking, at Morgan Stanley and then at LehmanBrothers. She then became Senior Features Editor at Vogue, where she has been acontributing editor for twenty years. While writing her books, Marron launchedGoodCompanies, a curated, online guide to companies that strive to do goodwhile also making a profit. This venture was shaped in part by the success ofTreasure &amp; Bond, a pop-up store that she co-founded with Nordstrom and AnnaWintour in 2011. All of the store’s profits went to charities benefiting NYCchildren. ...more