Marta is the Executive Director of the Donella Meadows Institute, a non-profit in Norwich, Vermont, USA whose focus is fostering systems thinking for the design of sustainable economies. A forest ecologist by training, over the years Marta has seen the redesign of the economic system as the leverage point to get to “unsustainability”. Marta worked for 10 years as a research faculty at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. In her work she tries to balance scientific rigor, advocacy and mindfulness. Away from her desk, Marta finds happiness in modern dance, accordion playing, growing vegetables, and native Italian cooking.