Marcie Goodman has spent her entire career in non-profit organizations that change their names.  From 1977 until 1987 she worked at the Federation for Community Planning (now The Center for Community Solutions).  Then in 1987 she made the switch from non-profit social services to non-profit arts when she joined the staff of the Cleveland International Film Festival (which became the Cleveland Film Society in 1991 but has since gone back to being the Cleveland International Film Festival) as their associate director.  She stayed with that organization until 1994 when she went to the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (now MOCA Cleveland) as their development director.  And then in 1998 she returned to the Cleveland International Film Festival, first as managing director and now (since 2001) as executive director.  In 2008 Marcie was presented with the Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio, under the category of Arts Administration.  And in 2009 the Cleveland International Film Festival was the first arts organization to ever receive the Mandel Center’s Organization Innovation Award.

A graduate of Case Western Reserve University and a Fellow of the Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders at the Stanford University School of Business, Marcie lives in Cleveland Heights with her two-year-old Weimaraner, Sam, and four cats.