Victoria Marsick is a professor of Education at Teachers College Columbia University. Marsick also is the Co-director of the J.M. Huber Institute for Learning Organizations. The Institute was established in 1999 to advance the state of knowledge and practice for learning and change in organizations. The Institute's research focuses on ways in which strategic organizational learning and knowledge creation and sharing enhance performance and change. She is also a leader with The Center for Adult Education which has conducted award-winning research on literacy and has also pioneered the Action Research Professional Development program (ARPD) that leads literacy teachers through reflective practice and experimentation in the classroom.

She received her B.A. from Notre Dame University and attended the Maxwell School where she earned her M.I.P.A. She graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley where she completed her dissertation entitled, "Training for "Taking Over": Three Asian Models for Education Fieldworkers

Professor Marsick's scholarly interests revolve around informal workplace learning, team learning, action learning, strategic organizational learning and knowledge management, learning organizations and international models of management. She currently teaches a workshop in Adult Education and a class on Learning Communities at Teachers College. She presents students with the central challenges of establishing learning communities as an adult education method of practice. Special attention is given to the use of the web as a way of establishing virtual learning communities. She currently serves on the Conference Committee for an upcoming conference to be held at Teachers College entitled: Democratic Practices as Learning Opportunities: Comparing International Experiences and Understandings. The conference is sponsored by The Center for Research and Innovation at Teachers College, Columbia University.