Marcello is an education leader who has worked across the country with thousands of teachers and leaders at the city, state, and national education system level. He was born and raised in Yakima, Washington and after traveling across the nation working in education in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle he returned to Yakima where he continues to serve in public education in the community he grew up in. He grew up listening to stories of his father growing up as a Chamorro on Guam through WWII and his mother growing up as a military child crisscrossing the nation, these stories taught him about the transformative power of education and his family’s deep connection to education, with numerous educators in his extended family. Marcello has worked with the Assistant Superintendent of Boston Public Schools, sat at a roundtable with the Secretary of Education and other national education leaders, engaged in education work with Congress and the Colorado Department of Education, and has developed and provided training for thousands of educators and administrators. When he isn’t innovating education he’s busy innovating the limits of his body from Ironman Triathlons to 17,000 ft. mountain passes, traveling the globe to more than 20 countries. He has slowed down in recent years to take on the greatest adventure of his life which is raising his three amazing children who are all under 2 years apart, he recommends you talk to him before following that same path.