Mariam is the award-winning author of Building Everyday Leadership: Promoting Attitudes and Actions for Respect and Success (for adult facilitators), and the companion teen book, Everyday Leadership: Attitudes and Actions for Respect and Success, which provide an organized curriculum for teaching leadership to teens. Her book, Teambuilding with Teens: Activities for Leadership, Decision Making and Group Success is a compilation of 36 activities to use with teen leaders or for teen leaders to use when mentoring others. Additional Everyday Leadership materials include a deck of Everyday Leadership cards for discussions or as writing prompts and the Everyday Leadership Skills and Attitudes Inventory, a youth-specific leadership inventory. All of these resources are available from Free Spirit Publishing.

Mariam was a contributing author to the Girl Scouts USA leadership-based middle school curriculum, aMaze, which launched in 2008. She has written articles on youth leadership for various publications and published the widely-used program development guidebook titled Designing Student Leadership Programs: Transforming the Leadership Potential of Youth (out of print).

Mariam worked with college student leaders at Syracuse University, Santa Clara University and Metropolitan State College of Denver. She left the college setting to use the “best-learned practices” from higher education to create more sophisticated and innovative approaches in leadership development with adolescent leaders. Mariam served as a school counselor and coordinator of leadership programs at an alternative high school outside of Denver, CO. While there, she received honorable mention for "Counselor of the Year."

Mariam consults with a wide range of organizations and presents workshops to diverse audiences with an emphasis on designing meaningful and sustainable youth leadership experiences in both school- and community-based settings.

Mariam is available for program consultation and youth and/or adult trainings. In addition, she offers one-to-one advising and assistance for individuals seeking to enhance their leadership image from the inside-out, ideal for individuals who find themselves in a high profile positions without preparation to take on the leadership responsibility associated with these roles.

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