Join Amy Marasco in her mission to create a sustainable, inclusive, and thriving community for all residents of Lewes, Delaware

Amy is currently a City Councilwoman, where she has been recognized for her leadership in re-engineering the city’s budget process and in launching the Lewes Resiliency Fund. She serves as the City’s Chair of the Finance Committee and is the City Treasurer. She is also leading the city’s grant writing efforts, bringing in more than $220,000 in transportation grant funds during the past year.

As a Lewes Planning Commissioner for two years, Amy led the Commission’s Environmental Subcommittee that developed strategies to ensure resiliency and sustainability for Lewes. She has worked diligently on ordinances and policies for floodplain management, wetland and buffer protection, and lot coverage. She planned and facilitated an innovative public workshop to generate interest and solicit ideas from Lewes’s citizens on the City’s environmental policies. She also led the creative Environmental Footprint project, which served as an “unofficial public hearing” and gathered input from hundreds of citizens, children and tourists about what they want included in a future “green print” for Lewes. The Footprint Tapestry was presented to the Lewes Mayor and City Council in April 2024 and still today guides the City’s environmental agenda.

Amy was elected to seven terms on the Town Council and served as Vice Mayor of the Town of Hillsboro, Virginia, where she focused on what resulted in award-winning infrastructure projects encompassing transportation, pedestrian safety, public trails, drinking water, stormwater management, wastewater and fiber-to-the-home broadband. She was instrumental in revising Hillsboro’s Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance and the Town’s boundary expansion. She led fiscal sustainability planning, served as the Town’s chief grant writer, helped establish the Greater Hillsboro Business Alliance, and designed and managed community events that attracted thousands of visitors and brought significant revenue to the Town. Amy was one of the founding board members of the Hillsboro Charter Academy, which reinvented a small rural elementary school into a free public charter, nationally recognized for excellence in STEAM education. She was the lead facilitator for hundreds of public meetings and presentations.

Amy is an accomplished business executive. She is the founder and President of ReThinkIt Associates, a small, women-owned management consulting firm specializing in strategic planning, communications and organizational effectiveness. She has been a leader in environmental policy making and management for more than 35 years. She is a senior executive consultant and nationally recognized facilitator who guides clients on effective strategic planning, marketing, communications programs, and organizational re-designs. She coaches public, private, and nonprofit sector executives in developing business and communication strategies, mergers and acquisitions, and organizational and cultural transformations.

She is highly regarded as a leading consultant for and mentor to small businesses and woman- and minority-owned firms and their executives and staff.

She is a successful entrepreneur and was the co-founder and CEO of a $50-million, 350-person IT and environmental management company. She managed hundreds of millions in Federal government contracts with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Departments of Transportation, Energy, Defense, Agriculture and Interior.

Amy has served on the executive board of three of the fastest growing small companies in the Washington D.C. metropolitan region. She has served on numerous private-sector and community boards and was most recently board chair of a 500-person global energy and environmental services firm.

Amy founded the national environmental nonprofit organization The Nature Generation (NatGen), which is committed to educating and inspiring youth on environmental stewardship. She created the first national environmental book award program, which recognizes authors and illustrators who write children’s and young adult books that focus on environmental stewardship and the actions youth can lead in their communities. NatGen partners with the Lewes Library and Salisbury University to host the annual NatGen Green Earth Book Awards, and most recently a conversation on the health of our oceans. She led in the founding and served as president of the Hillsboro Preservation Foundation, dedicated to preserving farms and open space, landscapes and landmarks, and supporting the arts and neighbors in need.

Master of Arts, Environmental Planning, Colorado State University, 1977

Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Political Science, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1976

Delaware Community Champion Award 2025, RASCL (Resilient and Sustainable Communities League)

Recipient, Delaware American Planning Association, Distinguished Leadership Award for an Appointed or Elected Official, 2024

Recipient, Delaware Today’s Top Women in Business, 2022

Recipient, Ohio Wesleyan Distinguished Alumni Award, highest honor University bestows 2021

Recipient of seven state and regional awards for the Town of Hillsboro ReThink9 infrastructure project 2021-2022

Co-recipient of Visit Loudoun’s 2018 Best New Tourism Event for Hillsboro’s Gardens in The Gap

Co-recipient of Visit Loudoun 2017 Tourism Campaign of the Year Award— Marketing and re-branding the Historic Town of Hillsboro

Recipient of the Washingtonian Magazine’s Green Leader Award, as well as numerous federal, county, and regional awards for business and environmental leadership