Marina Dundjerski, a Los Angeles-based journalist, has written about higher education, nonprofit institutions and Southern California history for more than 20 years, including for the Los Angeles Times and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. She is the author of UCLA: The First Century and the upcoming 50th anniversary book for UC Irvine’s Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences.

A Los Angeles native, Dundjerski holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from UCLA with a specialization in world literature.