Mara serves as the CEO of the PeaceWorks Foundation and its signature initiative, the OneVoice Movement. Mara first joined OneVoice as its International Organizing Director, based in the Middle East. In that position she focused on professionalizing and expanding its grassroots work, incorporating best practices and focusing on training and empowering local staff. She previously served as a political appointee in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration and before that was Congresswoman Doris Matsui’s (CA-06) Deputy Chief of Staff & Communications Director. A campaign veteran, Mara has served in leadership positions on behalf of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Ben Cardin (D-MD).
