SPEAKER — AUTHOR — GRAPHIC DESIGNER
SPEAKER—
With over 100 Flight of Remembrance events in eleven states since 2012, including a follow-up program about her family's post World War II immigration, Marina is a sought-after speaker who brings a message of hope to audiences, encouraging them to adopt a dream, a goal, and a vision in both pleasant and painful times. Wearing an embroidered heirloom dress handmade by her grandmother in 1930s Latvia, she promotes the continued preservation of WWII memories and a new perspective on the war through this story from the other side in Latvia, occupied Poland, and Germany. Marina is an officer and advanced speaker with the Exeter Speak-Ups Toastmasters club in Exeter, NH as well as a presenter with New Hampshire Humanities, which awards grants for her program to non-profits around the state. Popular venues include libraries, museums, schools and universities, historical societies, retirement communities, churches, civic organizations, and Lifelong Learning Institutes. She considers it a great privilege to connect with audiences of all ages.
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AUTHOR—
Marina was born in Zurich, Switzerland on the brink of her family’s odyssey to America in late 1951. More than 50 years later, she embarked on a ”mission of remembrance” to research and record their experiences in her book, Flight of Remembrance, which was published in late 2011 and won a finalist award in the narrative non-fiction category of the 2012 U.S.A. Best Book Awards. Today she shares the universal themes in this story of love, faith, survival, and cherished dreams that became a reality despite the catastrophe of WWII. Whereas the story draws on a prior family history written by her parents, Marina spent years interviewing them in order to expand the material. She also performed in-depth research on many aspects of the war in Europe, including her grandfather’s role as chief inspector of V-2 rocket mass production.
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GRAPHIC DESIGNER—
In her freelance graphic design business, Marina Kirsch Design, Marina specializes in book cover and interior design, imprint design, self-publishing support, and book promo material development for print and web—skills which grew out of her self-publishing experience, but she also has over three decades of experience in successful branding, corporate identity, packaging, and promotional projects for diverse corporate, non-profit, government, and private clients.
