Marga is a lifelong pollinator of good — trauma-informed expressive art therapist and mind-body wellness coach, certified Mindful Movement Qigong teacher, and artist. She is the CEO of Marga Fripp Studio and the Co-Founder and CEO of The Pollinators Foundation, also a TEDx speaker, and a former broadcast journalist.
In her 30 years of experience, she empowered thousands of women and families from immigrants, and refugees, to domestic violence, human trafficking, and trauma survivors. Her leadership and advocacy skills made impact in social justice, women’s empowerment, and social entrepreneurship. Marga is the founder of two successful nonprofit organizations, Empowered Women International, for immigrants and refugee women in The Washington D.C. Area, and APoWeR Romania for domestic violence survivors. The Pollinators Foundation is her third nonprofit dedicated to promoting wellness, mental well-being and social healing, and destigmatizing mental illness.
In her early 20’s, she was banned from practicing journalism in her native country, Romania, for “political insubordination.”
Following her media career, she created a nonprofit organization, The Association for the Promotion of Women Romania (APoWeR), the first organization in Southeastern Europe to draft a legal bill and advocate for legislation to protect survivors of domestic violence.
The bill was signed into law by the Romanian Parliament in 2003.
Marga has a master’s in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and a B.A. in Communication/Journalism from the University of Maryland University College. She is also a 200-hour Certified Holden QiGong Teacher with training in Mindfulness Self-Compassion, Expressive Arts for Trauma Survivors, Mental Health First Aid, Laughter Yoga, and Mental Well-Being Certification.
Among many recognitions, Marga has been honored as a 2015 Living Legend of Alexandria, USA, and one of Maryland’s Leading Women: 50 Women under 40 by the Daily Record 2012. She lives in the wildly beautiful Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. She is married to her soulmate, Jesse Fripp, and they have two wholehearted children, Geanina and Arthur, and a Lab Mix, named Cherubim.
What Makes Me Different?
Each one of us has something unique to offer to this world.
My Soul’s Calling is to empower you to manifest your highest potential. To come in touch with your gifts and your life-force energy. To bring back joy, courage and creativity. To offer yourself unconditional love and self-care.
My Superpower is a mix of compassion in action, fierce creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, and resilience. I embrace failure, accidents, and the unknown.
I seek possibilities and imagine wholehearted approaches to dissolving injustice, suffering and separation.
What is Your Superpower? What kind of energy do you wish to activate in your life? What is your Soul’s Calling?
