L. Trenton Marsh

L. Trenton Marsh, a doctoral candidate at NYU's Steinhardt School in the Teaching and Learning department earned his B.Sc. in Business Administration, double-majoring in Marketing and Enterprise Management from American University. He earned his M.A. in Education with a concentration in Human Resource Development from the George Washington University. Prior to coming to NYU, Marsh served as a Managing Business Consultant with IBM Corporation on the implementation team for the New York City Department of Education's Achievement Reporting and Innovation System. Responsible for 150 schools, he trained superintendents, principals, and teachers on the development and use of the tool.

Marsh is a 2015 recipient of the Mitchell Leaska Dissertation Research Award, a recipient of the 2016 PDK Doctoral Scholarship Award and a 2016 American Enterprise Institute, Education Policy Academy Fellow. His current scholarship uses ethnography to explore everyday practices of teachers and administrators, and its implications on Black and Latino students and their caregivers in high-performing charter schools.

In addition to his scholarship on urban education, Marsh has also written about academic and professional excellence. His book, (by Trafford Publishing in 2008), entitled From 1.0 to 4.0 highlights the strategies he used to transition from a struggling high school student to a successful student leader and academician. His book has been used at University of the Virgin Islands, Prairie View A&M University School of Nursing, Alexandria Virginia Public Schools, Los Medanos College, and other organizations/schools.

Marsh is the founding member of CommitMEN, a virtual think-tank that provides scholarship and guidance to African American men from high school through college. He also is the founder of It Takes a Village@New York University, a monthly educational mentoring partnership with NYU and New York City schools that pairs NYU male student mentors of color with Black and Latino male high-school mentees to focus on salient social-emotional factors.