Mahta Marcy

BA • MA • A/OGA
LST Program Director • OG Therapist

Mahta has been a member of Language Skills Therapy since 2017 and has served as Program Director since early 2024, personally guiding every family through the journey of finding the right Orton-Gillingham tutor for their child. She is a Certified Associate Orton-Gillingham Practitioner, trained through Fraser Academy and the Oregon Dyslexia Institute, and has spent over a decade working directly with children and teens facing dyslexia, dysgraphia, and auditory processing differences.

Mahta holds a Master of Arts in International Education Development from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of British Columbia. Before joining LST, she worked as an Educational Development Specialist supporting students with language-based learning differences, building on a career that has always centered on helping people grow into their fullest potential.

What drew Mahta to LST was its legacy. For over sixty years, a group of mostly women has quietly nurtured children who might otherwise have fallen through the cracks — doing extraordinary, generation-spanning work with remarkable humility. Mahta finds that legacy endlessly compelling, and it is part of why she feels privileged to carry it forward.

Mahta is neurodivergent herself, and she and her two sons share that experience. It shapes how she sees every child who comes through LST's doors. As Bahá'u'lláh wrote, every human being is "a mine rich in gems of inestimable value" — and Mahta believes education is what polishes those gems so the world can benefit from their brilliance. That belief is at the heart of her commitment to every family who reaches out to LST, and to honoring Dorothy Blosser Whitehead's legacy for the next generation of Oregon families.