Marcella Runell Hall is the Associate Director for the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs at New York University and oversees the Center for Spiritual Life. She has taught courses on Spirituality and Social Justice Education, and served as an education fellow and Assistant Director of Religion & Diversity Education at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, as well as a founding board member of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn.

While a full-time administrator at NYU, Marcella is completing her doctorate in Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her dissertation is entitled, "Education in a Hip-Hop Nation: Our Identity, Politics & Pedagogy."

Marcella co-edited 2 critically acclaimed books "Conscious Women Rock the Page: Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change" (2008) and the "Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume 1" (2007), wrote a best-selling book for Scholastic, "Ten Most Influential Hip-Hop Artists" (2008), published over twenty additional articles and book chapters on Islamaphobia, motherhood, education equity issues and Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogy; and freelanced for VIBE and the New York Times Learning Network. Marcella is currently adjunct faculty in the Steinhardt School of Education at NYU, and has taught several undergraduate and graduate courses at UMass Amherst, Bank Street College of Education and Upward Bound, winning two teaching awards; she has also served as Director of Education for the Hip-Hop Association.

Currently, at NYU, Marcella co-created and manages the nationally recognized Intergroup Dialogue program, the award-winning Hip-Hop and Pedagogy Initiative. She has reinstituted Future Administrators Cultural Training Seminar, created the Administrator Cultural Training Seminar, as well as other programming for graduate students of color. National awards and recognition include the Association of American Colleges and Universities 2009 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award and the Brooklyn Borough Presidents Racial Unity Citation.

Marcella holds a Bachelors Degree in Social Work from Ramapo College for New Jersey, and an MA in Higher Education Administration from New York University.