As co-founder of the collaborative studio Interval-Projects, she has worked as a designer and scholar in post-conflict and post-disaster regions. She has also worked in collaboration with numerous grassroots community groups in New York City, where she resides. Marlisa is currently working on a multi-year research project on the architectural products of humanitarian interventions, to be published with Birkhäuser in 2017. Her work has been published in Domus, Volume, San Rocco, and the New York Times, among others. She is a graduate of Columbia University (MArch) and Brown University (BA), and a part-time faculty member at Parsons.