Marie Edouard Theodore

Marie Edouard Theodore is the Fellowship Experience Manager at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) based at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and Trinity College Dublin. In this role, she supports the Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health and collaborates with the faculty and staff in achieving the common goal of diminishing the scale and impact of dementia worldwide. She also serves on the Black Leadership Advisory Council (BLAC) at the Memory and Aging Center.

Marie Edouard previously worked for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in the fight to prevent the spread of tuberculosis and to eliminate it as a public health problem in New York City. She later joined the educational field as a classroom instructor, an academic advisor and an administrator. In each capacity, she devoted herself to recruit and retain students and augmenting their graduation rates in the STEM fields. Her experiences allowed her the opportunity to serve individuals from various academic, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. She is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion. Marie Edouard holds a bachelor of science and master of science degree in biology with a concentration in molecular biology from Long Island University in New York.

When she is not at work, you will likely find her waltzing to the rhythm of Haitian Compas, thrilling her taste buds with mouth-watering recipes, and teasing her imagination and feeding her intellectual curiosity with written words of all genres.