Dr. Marcia Sherman
Board Member

Dr. Marcia Sherman grew up near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, began a public career in singing at two and had an early interest in spiritual ideals and interpersonal and inter-racial issues. She was intensely connected with the causes of the American Revolution, had a deep love for planting in the soil, walking in the woods with her beloved trees and a special affinity for the various tribes of American Indians. She began playing the harp at nine, read a book called One World written by Wendell Wilkie at ten and spent her teenage Saturdays listening to the Metropolitan Opera Company broadcasts from New York City. She entered Boston University Music School while working at several places at the Polaroid Corporation and then married a Korean physics student at Harvard.

Their family lived in many places in the United States, her husband got his Ph. D. in physics from UC Berkeley and became a College Professor. After her divorce while raising their three children, she finished her degree in harp performance as well as minoring in Theater Arts where she wrote the music and performed in many plays, then got a double Master’s in Sociology and Counseling. Later she moved to Portland to work for the Oregon Bureau of Labor, further her music and pursue an active career in politics.

In Portland, she designed, built and sold her own harp carrier as well as recorded four tapes of her music while she worked as a legal assistant, an administrator and continued in her musical career on the harp. Her health failed badly and she moved to Santa Barbara, California to attempt a solution which she did by years of study of Western and alternative medicine. While she was ill she got a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology (Jungian) from The Union Institute under the guidance of Jose´ Arguelles, taught classes at SBCC Adult Ed for fourteen years, was very active in the Perot campaign and ran for the Santa Barbara City Council in 2001.

Marcia has a great interest in international relations which was exacerbated by her living in Korea during the Vietnam war. She came home strongly opposed to the war and with a very different view of political, sociological and psychological interaction resulting in an active interest in international affairs, The United Nations and the State Department.