Marilena Marchetti
Contributing Author
Marilena Marchetti is a documentary filmmaker, educator, and organizer whose work centers on social change and building people power.
She spent 13 years working in special education, organizing alongside her comrades in the labor movement and taking on the Boards of Education in both Chicago and New York City.
Today she produces documentaries that spotlight harm reduction, workers' rights, and the human stories behind systemic injustice. At PrisonAssist.com she brings that lens to coverage of incarceration — helping families understand the systems their loved ones are navigating, and the people working to change them.
Documentary filmmaking
Harm reduction
Labor & workers' rights
Education