Marcia McCraw, a Mandarin-speaking attorney, earned a B.A., in Asian Studies (China) at Cornell University and earned a J.D. at Western New England College School of Law, now Western New England University, where she served as managing editor of the law review.  Licensed to practice law in Washington State, California, Hawaii, and New York, she provides legal counsel to start-ups and to public companies on issues ranging from entity formation and compliance to contracts and compliance with U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reporting requirements for foreign direct investment in U.S. businesses and in U.S. real estate. She received a Presidential appointment to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council in Washington, D.C., has chaired several nonprofit boards, including USO Northwest, and has served on the local board of Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science. She recently has published articles on the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis mandatory reporting requirements for foreign direct investment in U.S. business and real estate; for those discovered not in compliance, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis my assess significant fines and, for individuals, including corporate directors and offices, may impose up to one-year imprisonment. Marcia's passion is innovative technology creatively improving or to brightening everyday life.