Marilyn Trail is a Family and Community Educator working for WSU Cooperative Extension in Spokane County. She is currently starting a Nurturing Parent project in Spokane's East Central Neighborhood. She supervised the delivery of the Family Focus curriculum in Spokane and was part of the Award winning Family Focus team from 1991 to 1996.

Marilyn taught parenting classes (Active Parenting, Reparenting, Rethink Anger Management, Self Esteem a Family Affair) and did family therapy from 1971 to 1992 in Denver, Bainbridge Island, WA, and Spokane.

Marilyn earned a M.A. in Clinical and Social Psychology is from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco.

e-mail: MTrail@spokanecounty.org