Marcia Sage is president of The Sports Ethics Institute. Its programs and activities are designed to increase the knowledge and understanding of ethical issues in sports and to promote models and traditions of ethical excellence.
Before co-founding The Sports Ethics Institute in late 1999, Ms Sage was affiliated with the Ethics Center at the University of South Florida and the Values Institute at the University of San Diego. There she designed and produced a major international conference on ethical issues in sport that brought together scores of philosophers, sports industry executives, journalists, academics and athletes to explore and debate a wide range of sports ethics topics before an audience of several hundred attendees.
More recently she designed an Ethics & The Sports Media conference bringing philosophers from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Harvard University and other top U.S. colleges together with sports media executives and journalists from over 25 media outlets and publications, among them: CBS Sports, HBO Sports, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, CNN and CNNSI.com, USA TODAY, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe.
A member of the California State Bar, Ms Sage began her professional career as a practicing attorney in Southern California. From 1985 through the mid 90s, she worked in Washington, DC, as a consulting attorney specializing in employee healthcare benefits.
She received her undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California, at Los Angeles and her law degree from Western State University, College of Law.
She received a post-doctorate degree in Taxation from Boston University, where she was on Law Review.
Marcia lives near Washington, DC, in a Maryland suburb. |
