Marsha Familaro Enright, has been an educator, psychotherapist and writer for many years. She’s co-founder and president of the 20 year old Council Oak Montessori Elementary School. She runs a seminar for adults, Ayn Rand’s Vision, through The Fountainhead Institute.

She’s currently developing a new college, the College of the United States through the Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute. Its Great Books-based full liberal arts program uses Socratic seminars and is informed by Ayn Rand’s ideas,  the Montessori Method, and Classical Liberalism.

She taught Ayn Rand’s theory of politics for the Free Market Society of Chicago and was a board member to its successor organization, The Henry Hazlitt Institute, which produced Free-Market.Net (now run by the International Society for Individual Liberty).

She’s spoken at The Objectivist Center Summer Seminar for over 10 years. She was a curriculum developer and teacher for Camp Indecon, a summer camp aimed at communicating the fundamentals of a rational and practical, reality-based philosophy to children aged 9-16.

In 1987 she founded one of the oldest Objectivist salons, The New Intellectual Forum, which continues to meet to this day in Chicago.

Among her research articles is If Emotions Aren’t Tools of Cognition… What Are They? An Exploration of the Relation Between Emotion and Reason, which was published in the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. It examines issues of psychology, development, and Objectivism.

You can contact her at menright@rifinst.org.