Brooklyn Daily Eagle Article
Hills & Gardens: Artists Trained as Social Project
12/01/2009
By Trudy Whitman
She graduated from Brown and received an MA from Columbia. She is only 30, but her CV is as lengthy and weighty as that of someone twice her age. And she says that although she loved growing up near Boston, New York always beckoned. If you’ve conjured up an image of a Wall Street lioness-in-the-making with a six-figure salary who survived the market meltdown, conjure again. Marisa Catalina Casey possesses the intelligence, drive, and, certainly, the energy for such a career, but since she was a young child making bracelets and barrettes to sell for good causes, she knew she wanted to use her creativity and drive to help others.
Adopted from Colombia at the age of three, Casey held firmly to her roots. As a teenager, she made several trips back to Latin America during which she visited orphanages, helping her mother who had founded a non-profit adoption agency. After one such trip, Casey designed a calendar using photographs of adopted children. “The calendar brought in thousands,” she recalls, “and all the money went back to the orphanages.”
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