Marissa Pappas recently received her master of public administration degree from Cleveland State University, where she also received her bachelor's degree in nonprofit administration. She serves as a graduate assistant at CSU's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, studying the effects of local nuisance laws on vulnerable and marginalized populations.
Pappas also is a current Board Fellow with Cleveland's Housing and Advocacy Center and a former Board Fellow of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio.