Prisca Chen Marvin, J.D., is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR), a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to funding and accelerating biomedical research focusing on autism spectrum disorders. In 2006, NAAR merged with Autism Speaks. She is a 1988 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A registered patent attorney with specialization in chemical patents, Ms. Marvin was an associate with firms in Wilmington, Delaware, and Washington, DC. She is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She is a member of the Delaware Bar, the District of Columbia Bar and the United States Supreme Court. She is the mother of a teenage daughter with autism and an Associate of the Yale Child Study Center at Yale University.