Meals on Wheels

Marzella Tyson is the Chief Executive Officer of Meals on Wheels Collin County where she also served as the Director of Operations prior to becoming the CEO.  She holds a Master’s in Public Health from Southern Connecticut State University, with 20 years’ experience in non-profit leadership impacting at-risk and disenfranchised populations. In Texas, she served as the Director of Programs for Interfaith Housing Coalition for homeless families, Executive Director for Pedi place for medically underserved children, and oversaw the distribution of millions of dollars towards in-community programming for the National Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Marzella spent a decade implementing public health and social programs in the New England by working with governmental municipalities, prominent educational institutions (such as Yale University School of Public Health, State of Connecticut) and faith-based partners i.e. Teen Challenge and HUD. These programs helped improve the quality of life for at risk families, pregnant women, and children.  After becoming the Director of Alcohol and Drug Prevention for the City of New Haven Connecticut, she helped design a citywide continuum of care with indicators of success, to support individuals with addiction.  Marzella went on to become the Director of an Intermediate Sanctions Program in Connecticut to help rehabilitate probationary and parolees in need of employment and crisis management.  In order to impact policy and be a change agent, she served as the Associate Director of Family Services for the Connecticut Association for Human Services in Hartford, CT. Here she advocated for state healthcare access and early preschool immunizations for medically underserved children.  Marzella was featured on hundreds of Connecticut PSA billboards and radio to promote AIDS education and a statewide hotline though INFOLINE, a crisis intervention and suicide prevention information and referral network through United Way.