Marie attended Bronx High School of Science and the University of Michigan, and received a BS in nursing from Boston University and an MS in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. She worked as a nurse at Boston City and Beth Israel hospitals in Boston, and Alta Bates, Kaiser, and Merritt hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area. She has been a nurse-midwife at the North Shore Birth Center and Harvard Community Health Plan in the Boston area, and Group Health Association, Lakner and Gerber, Annapolis Ob-Gyn, and at the Pregnancy Aid Center in the Washington, DC, area. She also has been a clinical instructor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Marie and Steve were married in 1980; the honeymoon was spent bicycling from Boston to Seattle. Send email to Marie at mariefetter@gmail.com.