Alicia Marseille

Alicia Marseille serves as the Senior Director of Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions (RMWSSS), a Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and a member of the Global Futures Lab Human Economies Collaborative.

At RMWSSS Alicia leads efforts in developing collaborations with internal and external public, private, and community based partners to advance systemic and entrepreneurial solutions for complex challenges related to sustainability and circular economy. These solutions, or interventions, are holistic and are focused on social, economic, and environmental outcomes.

Key efforts Alicia is co-leading are under the umbrella concept the team has been co-designing, Community Ecological Economic Development (CEED). This concept utilizes the Sustainability Solutions Development Framework the team co-created that works with internal and external partners to co-design, pilot, and scale solutions. Key solutions that have or are being piloted include but are not limited to: the Circular Living Lab, ASU's Circular Plastic's Microfactory, and the Urban Nature (Urban Forestry Accelerator). CEED strives to create emergent pathways for community and economic development in light of climate change.

Her role as Senior Director follows her successful directorship of the RISN Incubator, a circular economy accelerator within the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network, or RISN. The RISN Incubator was a collaboration between RMWSSS and the Entrepreneurship + Innovation departments at Arizona State University along with the City of Phoenix and is partially funded by a U.S. Economic Development Administration grant.

Prior to joining ASU, Alicia spent seven years in economic development, working with U.S. Small Business Administration funded programs. She was the director of Arizona Women's Education and Entrepreneur Center, an SBA funded Women's Business Center, where she developed and managed the center which provided programming, services, and resources for communities across Maricopa County.

She is a highly skilled systems leader with expertise in developing strategic partnerships, building teams and organizations and has international experience in public/private partnerships; green growth strategies; business analytics, financial modeling, research and proposal development for funding for international finance organizations such as the US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Commerce, Office of Naval Research, International Finance Corporation, U.S. Agency for International Development, state, municipal, and philanthropic funding. Alicia's interest in entrepreneurship launched when she founded and operated an international small business working with a large cooperative of farmers in the Caribbean to export/import raw green coffee and distributing it across the U.S.