Stephanie Pace Marshall is the Founding President and President Emerita of the internationally recognized Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy®. IMSA develops creative, ethical leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As a teaching and learning laboratory created by the State of Illinois, IMSA enrolls academically talented Illinois students (grades 10-12) in its advanced, residential college preparatory program. It also serves thousands of educators and students in Illinois and beyond through innovative instructional programs that foster imagination and inquiry. (www.imsa.edu)

Marshall is internationally recognized as a pioneer and innovative leader and teacher and an inspiring speaker and writer on leadership, learning and schooling, and the design of generative and life-affirming learning organizations. She has published over thirty articles in professional journals and was an author for the Drucker Foundation’s series Organizations of the Future. She served as an editor and chapter author of Scientific Literacy for the 21st Century (2002) and was a contributing advisor to Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U. S. High Schools (published by the National Academy of Science in 2002).

Marshall was the founding president of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools in Mathematics, Science and Technology, and the president of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), one of the world’s largest international education associations. She was elected a fellow in the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers, and Commerce in London, England and serves on the board of the Queen Noor Foundation in Amman, Jordan, and several other foundation and corporate boards in the United States. In 2007, she became a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Science and the Public and a charter member of the Advisory Board for AECT’s FutureMinds: Transforming American School Systems.

Marshall has been recognized by the R J R Nabisco Corporation as one of the nation’s most innovative educational leaders and by the National Association of School Boards as one of North America’s 100 Best Educators. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership, including the Distinguished Service Award from the U. S. Marine Corp, the Woman Extraordinaire Award by the International Women’s Association, and the Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award from the Boy Scouts of America. She earned her Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago and has received four  honorary doctorates in science and in arts and letters. In 2007, she received the Pioneer Award from the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.

Marshall has worked in every level of education: superintendent of schools, a district curriculum administrator, a graduate school faculty member, and an elementary and middle school teacher. Along with her formal leadership positions, she consults with national and international policy leaders and practitioners and is a dynamic speaker. As a result of her achievements, in 2005 she was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois and was designated a Laureate of the Academy, the state’s highest award for achievement that “contributes to the betterment of mankind.” At the invitation of President William Jefferson Clinton, Dr. Marshall became a member in 2007 of the Clinton Global Initiative, a non-partisan cadre of "the world's most influential leaders committed to strengthening the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.”

She has two stepchildren and five grandchildren and lives in Wheaton, Illinois with her husband Robert and as often as they can, they travel to their home, Kaleidoscope Mountain, in Breckenridge, Colorado.