Marshall is Associate Director of the Color, Materials and Trends Exploration Laboratory (CMTEL) at the Art Center College of Design. CMTEL serves as materials library and collaborative learning space for students to discover emerging color and material technologies, develop sensibilities for color and material design trends, and design with industry partners in immersive workshop settings. Marshall has worked in the areas of design modeling and prototyping for the automotive, medical, and consumer product industries, as well as corporate learning, interactive retail systems, and technology commercialization. Marshall studied economics at the University of California at Irvine.