Marie studied film at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. Arago has many years of experience working in the photography industry and has created photography workshop programs in New York and Mexico with the photographer David Alan Harvey as well as a photography program for children in Anguilla in partnership with the Anguillia National Trust. Marie currently lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti where she works as a freelance photographer and director of FotoKonbit, a non-profit initiative that teaches photography to youth and adults in rural and urban Haiti.