Marc Mallory Malesela Gwangwa Peters was born and raised in the Brightwood neighborhood of Ward 4, in Northwest Washington, DC. Marc's mother's family hails from Richmond, Surry County, Petersburg, and Hopewell, Virginia, and his father's comes from Soweto, South Africa. After graduating from the Duke Ellington School with a concentration in Visual Arts, he moved to Chicago to enter the Bachelor of Science program at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, interning at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond the summer of 1996, after which co-founding the first student chapter of the Organization of Black Designers in 1997, serving as the Chicago student chapter’s first President. While in Chicago for nearly 20 years, he received master’s degrees in strategic planning and computer science from Illinois Tech and the University of Chicago respectively, worked for ‪BlackVoices.com‬ during the internet bubble, and was a New Media volunteer in the headquarters of the Obama campaign in 2008, voting for Obama in the Democratic primary on MLK Day. He now works as an I.T. contractor in the Washington metropolitan area.

Christmas of 2017, Marc e-published Blockchain Revolution: Bridging Multiple Divides, a 50-page white paper on blockchain, cryptocurrency, and a platform definition for social justice. He founded Peters Fullstack Applications, LLC in 2018, and Prime Federated Applications, LLC, a subsidiary, in 2020: both are held by Peters Firm Array, LLC, founded in 2021, including Peters Fortified Arms, LLC, founded in 2022. He founded Progress for All, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to voter education on ballot measures in 2019, and Progress for America, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit devoted to voter education and advocacy on progressive issues in 2023. He is currently building Progress for America Fund, a PAC. He is the President of the Northern Virginia Equity Agenda Coalition where, among other things during his membership, he has worked with the Coalition on the effort to amend the Memorandum of Understanding between the Fairfax County Police Department and Fairfax County Public Schools.

In 2016, Marc joined Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated: currently a Life Member. He served as Chapter Vice President, currently serves as Voter Registration Committee Chair, statewide Social Justice Committee member, and board member of the statewide Education Foundation. He was Chapter Awards Committee Chair after winning Chapter Man of the Year in 2018, and was a statewide candidate for Outstanding Alumni Brother of the Year in 2019. Previously, he served as Chair of the Chapter Social Justice Committee (in this role he wrote to public officials immediately following the Charlottesville car attack and imploring white supremacists be prosecuted as terrorists, and received a response from Senator Tim Kaine), Voter Registration Committee Chair, Recording Secretary, Parliamentarian, board member of the Chapter Education Foundation, and Chapter representative to the National Pan-Hellenic Council of Northern Virginia, where he served as Social Action Committee Chair and I.T. Committee Chair. He became Chapter Rising Brother of the Year in September 2023.

Peters joined NBUF in 2018. In 2019, he joined Universal #1, MWPHGLVA, and currently serves as Senior Deacon: previously, Treasurer, then Chaplain. In February of 2023, he was awarded Outstanding Mason of the Year from 2019-2021. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Coach in the Manhood Training Ministry at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. In April of 2023, he joined the Alpha Toastmasters 1906 club. In October of 2023, he became a charter member of the Alpha PAC. He served as a volunteer facilitator on the Kamala Harris Presidential campaign in 2024. In March of 2025, Marc Peters became a Fellow of the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Political Institute.