Before coming to Ryerson in 2007, she worked in both the preservice and graduate programs at The Faculty of Education, York University. Marni also worked extensively with primary-aged children, as well as with junior-aged children as an educator in the innercity schools of Toronto for 23 years. Her teaching, research, artistic practice, and publications in the arts, literacy, multimodalities, and spirituality in the lives of young children, are rooted in arts-based education research approaches and a holistic philosophy.