Joseph E. Marshall is an American author, lecturer, radio talk show host, and community activist.

He graduated from San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...

 with a BA in in Political Science and Sociology, with an M.A. in Education in 1974, and from the Wright Institute

Wright Institute

The Wright Institute is a Clinical Psychology Graduate School located in Berkeley, California.-Founding:The Institute was founded by Nevitt Sanford in 1968 when he left Stanford...

 with a Ph.D. in Psychology.

He is the founder of the Alive & Free Movement and the founder and president of the Street Soldiers National Consortium. He taught with the San Francisco United School District.

Awards

• 2004 Ashoka Fellow
• 1994 MacArthur Fellows Program
  MacArthur Fellows Program
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• Leadership Award from the Children's Defense Fund
  Children's Defense Fund
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• Essence Award honoring outstanding contributions by African American men
• 1996 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award from the National Educational Association
• 2001 "Use Your Life Award" from Oprah Winfrey
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  's Angel Network.

Works

• Street Soldier, One Man's Struggle to Save a Generation, One Life at a Time, Delacorte Press, 1996, ISBN 9780385314305