Marga is a Romanian-American humanitarian, a women’s empowerment activist, healing arts practitioner, artist & mental health advocate.
She has nearly three decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, social entrepreneurship, women’s empowerment, and resilience-building. Her work inspired and transformed the lives of thousands of immigrants, refugees, and trauma survivors many of whom were artists, leaders, creatives and entrepreneurs. She is a TEDx speaker, a former broadcast journalist, and the founder of Empowered Women International.
After moving to Western North Carolina in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Marga founded Marga Fripp Studio to extend care and healing to individuals and organizations. In 2022, she co-founded The Pollinators Foundation I Pollinating Social Healing One Life at a Time with her daughter, Geanina Fripp Emerson to promote individual and social healing and humanize the mental health conversation through the power of the healing arts.
She has a master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and a B.A. in Communication/Journalism from the University of Maryland University College. She is a 200-hour Certified Holden QiGong Teacher and has additional training in Mindfulness Self-Compassion.
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?
