About Marquita
Louisiana native Marquita James won’t yet admit to loving StoryCorps’ New York home base, but she definitely has a crush on it. As a lover of both storytelling and history, Marquita was drawn to StoryCorps’ reassertion of the power of oral history in a world which increasingly relies upon keystroke communication. In her many lives prior to joining StoryCorps, Marquita clerked for a civil rights and death penalty defense attorney, coordinated a mentoring program for at-risk youth, mediated small claims court cases, and led conflict resolution and negotiation skills workshops. She also had the exhilarating experience of teaching self-advocacy skills to youth involved in juvenile justice and foster care systems.
The thread tying Marquita’s disparate experiences together and leading her to StoryCorps is her passion for empowering people to be agents of their own change. Marquita can think of few more powerful experiences than satisfying her wanderlust while helping community raconteurs serve up their many-timbred stories to the rest of the world. This graduate of Washington University in St. Louis is also a student at Harvard Law School.
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