Marea holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish/Portuguese from UC Berkeley and a midwifery license from the National Midwifery Institute. They teach midwifery and insemination skills to student midwives around the country. A parent of three children (one of whom they birthed themselves), Marea is also a writer whose work has been published in online publications such as Everyday Feminism,Ms. magazine,Mother.ly, and the Huffington Post. In 2014 they cowrote a cookbook, Straight From the Earth: Irresistible Vegan Recipes for Everyone, in an effort to make plant-based eating more accessible and less scary to other omnivores like themselves and in 2023 they co-wrote Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents.