Marc Skvirsky
Board Member
About Marc
Marc Skvirsky is an educator, nonprofit leader, and facilitator who has spent his career helping leaders and institutions grapple with history, justice, and civic responsibility. He served for nearly four decades at Facing History and Ourselves, where he was a member of the senior leadership team and most recently Vice President and Chief Program Officer. During that time, he helped guide the organization’s growth from a small educational nonprofit to an international organization with offices and partnerships around the world.
At Facing History, Marc oversaw program implementation in schools and districts across the United States and internationally, led strategic planning efforts, and directed the professional development of program staff. He built partnerships with filmmakers, authors, scholars, and educational leaders, and reviewed and shaped the organization’s publications and digital resources. Marc also designed and led immersive study tours around the world—including to South Africa, Eastern Europe, Northern Ireland, and the American South—giving educators, staff, and board members opportunities to explore past and present conflicts and deepen their understanding of Facing History’s core work.
Since retiring from Facing History, Marc has joined the faculty of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice, where he teaches a year-long course on leadership and management for nonprofit leaders. In this role he has worked with more than 100 nonprofit executives and emerging leaders. He has also helped design and facilitate retreats for INP’s Black Leadership Institute. In addition, Marc serves as lead facilitator for the Widen the Circle Fellowship, helping to build a transatlantic network of “remembrance activists” in the United States and Germany—leaders and thinkers working to confront historical injustice and its ongoing legacies.
Before joining Facing History, Marc was a classroom teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he helped design an urban middle school magnet program and taught social studies and English. He holds a B.A. in Education and an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.