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Marina Dunbar is a Digital Editor at New York Family. She was born and raised in sunny Southern California where she worked as a newspaper reporter and local magazine writer. She attended the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a bachelor’s in Rhetoric and the Craig Newmark School of Journalism where she received her master’s in journalism. When she’s not writing she can be found at the beach, listening to jazz, or cooking French cuisine.

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