After having grown up with 5 brothers and sisters in a small village in Austria/Europe, Marion studied Environmental Engineering and worked for different environmental organizations. In 2006 she went to Tumaco, Colombia to do an internship for her studies, when she got caught by this wonderful country and its people.

At the Peace University in Schlaining, Austria, Marion did a workshop on non-violence led by IFOR Austria and Hildegard Goss-Mayr. In conversations after the workshop she became interested in joining the accompaniment project of IFOR USA in the peace community of San Jose de Apartado. Marion started her gorgeous time of beans, rice and peace community in November 2009.