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Marie Wilson is the Associate Director and Chief Program Officer of the Georgia Council on Economic Education, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her primary responsibilities include grant writing, program development, administration, and teacher education for this state-wide business and education partnership with its network of twelve university-based centers. Dr. Wilson holds degrees in economics and education from the University of Strathclyde and Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow, Scotland, and Vanderbilt University.
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Marie Wilson is a Board Certified Art Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist. With close to thirty years in the behavioral health field, Marie’s clinical work has focused on the integration of the creative arts therapies into traditional addiction treatment.
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Marie Wilson, 65, started The White House Project for a critical reason: to get more women in positions of leadership and to get a woman in the White House - as president. Today women represent 51 percent of the population, but only account for 15 percent of Congress and fill less than 14 percent of the board seats in the Fortune 500. In fact the United States is behind much of the world in terms of women's political representation, ranking 68th, after Angola and Vietnam. Since 1998, The White House Project has advocated for women's leadership through initiatives including "Vote, Run, Lead" which since 2005 has provided political leadership training to more than 800 women to help them run for office. Participants have won elective office in three states, and at least 70 have become legislative interns. The White House Project has hosted national summits for female CEOs and executives and for international women leaders.
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Marie Wilson plays the heart-warming Dr. Karen Wexler, a role she took over in June, 1999. Intelligent, talented and driven, Karen struggles with her addictions of the past and the overwhelming demands of work at General Hospital. A proven physician, she focuses on her patients' needs instead of her own. Having learned a hard lesson, Karen has let go of her fears and delved into a new relationship with Frank Scanlon, the older brother of her one-time fiancé, Joe Scanlon. Believing that all dreams come true, Frank and Karen have lived a fairytale existence that can only happen once in a lifetime, but multiple times in a century.
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From All Movie Guide: The quintessential dumb, buxom blonde, Marie Wilson was born in Anaheim, CA, then moved with her family to Hollywood after the death of her father. She received her first screen role as Mary Quite Contrary in the Laurel and Hardy version of Babes in Toyland (1934), through the auspices of her then-husband, writer/director Nick Grinde. Signed to a Warner Bros. contract, Wilson cemented her scatterbrained reputation in such films as Satan Met a Lady (1936) and Boy Meets Girl (1938). In 1944, she was hired by Ken Murray to perform a comedy striptease in Murray's Hollywood stage revue Blackouts; the engagement lasted five years and 2,332 performances. In 1947, Wilson starred in the radio sitcom "My Friend Irma," which led to two theatrical films (the first of which introduced Martin and Lewis to the moviegoing audience) and a TV series.
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Born Marie Flevaras on October 12, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Marie Wilson is best known as Dr. Karen Wexler Cates on the ABC soap opera Port Charles. In 2005 she appeared in As the World Turns as Meg Snyder. She ... appeared on General Hospital from 1999 to 2003.
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