In 1997, Marincola was named founding director of the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative (PEI), a program of The Pew Charitable Trusts, administered by The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Magazine named Marincola one of the city's most influential people in its April 2014 "Power Issue," and in November 2016 the magazine featured her as one of the region's "Revolutionary Bosses": leaders who have "made bold thinking the new way to do business in Philly."[REF] .