Marcella Forslund

Director of Communications

Hi! My name is Marcella, and I recently joined the team here at St. Anthony in the summer of 2025. I am the Director of Communications and am excited to continue to get to know the parish community. Many parishioners have already given me such a warm welcome, and I am so very grateful.
I am a Texas native and moved to South Bend when I was 11 years old with my family and was homeschooled all the way through high school. After graduating high school, I went to Holy Cross College and earned my B.A. in Studio Art while minoring in Elementary Education and graduated a semester early in December of 2024. I was honored to be the salutatorian for the Department of Humanities in the 2025 graduating class. While in college, I had the opportunity to work as a teaching assistant for three years and a logistics and operations assistant for a year for the Notre Dame Children’s Choir.
I joined the Catholic faith at 12 years old, along with the rest of my family, at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in South Bend, and since then I have only grown more in love with the faith. I recently got married to my husband, Spencer, at St. Monica Catholic Church in Mishawaka, where I am now a parishioner. I have desired to work for and serve the Church for a long time and am so happy and blessed to fulfill that dream at St. Anthony.
In my free time, I enjoy painting, going on walks, and gardening. If you ever see me around, always feel free to say, “Hi!”