Marina is an author, broadcaster, podcaster and peace activist. In 2004, after working for 15 years as a journalist, and as a response to the invasion of Iraq, she founded The Forgiveness Project, a UK-based charity that works with personal narratives to help break cycles of harm and create a more compassionate world.
Marina has co-created The Forgiveness Toolbox, produced and hosted The F Word Podcast, and for BBC Radio 4 hosted three series of Forgiveness: Stories from the Frontline. The most recent of Marina’s three books on the subject of forgiveness, Forgiveness: An Exploration, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2022. She has also worked as a tutor for the Arvon Foundation, a charitable organization that promotes creative writing, and recently devised and delivered a course called Turning Pain Into Prose.
