Marissa is credited as a camera operator and costume coordinator on the 2022 upcoming feature film "Atrabilious" starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jeffrey Wright. Her experimental short "Ode to a Sunrise" premiered at the AMC Empire 25 Theatre in October, 2021 in Times Square, NYC. Her short film "Renee" premiered as part of the "In Our Heads" anthology at the 2020 Columbia University DiFi Film Festival. www.marissamichel.com

Marissa Michel served as the 2020 Prince George’s County Youth Poet Laureate. She is a two-time American Voice nominee, and is the recipient of multiple national gold medals for poetry in the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. Marissa was the 2020 Diaz-Mattison Poetry Prize recipient.