Marisa actively engages in many research computing and data communities and has held leadership roles with the Supercomputing Conference, the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), the Campus Champions, and Women in HPC (WHPC).
She has served as WHPC Chapter co-Chair for the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC), the PEARC 21 and PEARC22 DEI Chair, past co-Chair of the Purdue University WHPC Chapter, and an inaugural member of the ASU Knowledge Enterprise Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Task Force.