Marc Mares
During his fellowship year Marc built a community to provide fitness, structure, and support to youth. Through experimentation and iteration, Marc developed a simple and surprisingly low cost community that increases the physical condition, enhances the emotional wellbeing, and improves the educational outcomes of its participants. Through teaching values like grit, confidence, and empathy, Marc has created a bonded group. What if the youth of every community felt supported to reach their full potential? What if they all saw a future for themselves? Come learn more about The Huddle, a simple and effective way to build strong communities from the ground up. More
A Coast Guard officer and middle school/high school distance running coach, Marc Mares believes fitness can do more than just improve health. It can serve as the backbone to strengthen adolescent communities.
For the past year Marc has been running a fitness group in Oakland, CA for adolescents of all athletic abilities. This year Marc will create and test a plan to scale his wildly successful model to adolescent communities across the country. Marc believes that even with very limited resources these communities can move forward and unite around the values of hard work, courage, and humility.