[1] Marlene Wayar is the general coordinator of Futuro Transgenerico - an organization with which she was part of the National Front for the Gender Identity Law[2] – and co-founder of the Silvia Rivera Trans Network of Latin America and the Caribbean.

She is the director of El Teje, the first travesti newspaper in Latin America,[3] developed from a workshop held at the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center.

She is one of the founders of the Nadia Echazú Textile Cooperative,[5] a workshop-school named in honor of the trans rights activist.

[6][7] A few weeks into the Trans Literacy Center's second year, the Popular Library of Gender, Sexual Affective Diversity, and Human Rights of the Argentine province of Tucumán (CRISÁLIDA) reported that, as a result of a poll, alumni and participants proposed adding "Marlene Wayar" to the center's name.

[8] In September 2011, Wayar received the Lola Mora Award [es] from the Buenos Aires City Legislature for the publication El Teje.