Marian is the Founder and Director of Honor Our Pueblo Existence (HOPE), a community-based organization located at Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. She has been involved with environmental/health issues of concern for over thirty years, as Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is located within her ancestral homelands, a place that is Sacred to Pueblo People. She finds balance by working on cultural preservation/reclamation projects within the Santa Clara Pueblo and surrounding villages. She is a mother of four and grandmother of nine, and life time traditional potter. She comes from the well-known Naranjo family of Santa Clara potters.