Marcia Hanscom has been speaking out for the protection and restoration of wetlands, coastal ecosystems and endangered species since the early 1990s when she lived nearby the Bolsa Chica Wetlands in Huntington Beach and became involved with the Sierra Club in order to preserve more wetlands there than had been offered in a deal to another environmental public interest group. She was a leader in the decade-long struggle to save more than 600 acres of land at Ballona from 1995 until the present, and became a Co-Founder of the Ballona Institute in 2004 after the State of California acquired Ballona.
Hanscom also manages the nonprofit public interest group, CLEAN, Coastal Law Enforcement Action Network, which works to enforce laws protecting the California coast. She has served as an elected leader in the Sierra Club since 1993, including a three-year term on the national Board of Directors from 2002-2005.
source: Ballona Institute