Laurie Maranian

Laurie Maranian is Chief Development Officer at Cardinal Cushing Centers, where she has worked in various roles within the Development Department since 2010. After graduating from Harvard College with a BA in Sociology, she began her career coordinating social and recreation programming for teens and young adults with Down syndrome and then transitioned to Cardinal Cushing Centers in 2010. Maranian is also co-founder of Urban PowerHouse, a nonprofit gym and powerlifting training facility in the Hyde Park area of Boston, is a certified running coach, a semi-professional power lifter, and has run the Boston Marathon twice. She previously served on the Board for Women in Development, and served as Chair of the Non-Profit Affinity Group of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce.