Almanack Contributor Mark Marchand

Mark Marchand is a writer and communications consultant, specializing in science, the environment, and crisis communications. He also serves as an adjunct professor in the Journalism Department at the University at Albany (SUNY). In the past, he has led communications efforts at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a retired corporate communications senior manager at Verizon, having worked for the telecommunications company in Boston, New York, and New Jersey. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he is also a former daily newspaper journalist and serves on the Board of Directors of Capital Communications Federal Credit Union.