Marina is Senior Program Manager at California Partnership for Safe Communities. Prior to this, Marina was the Policy and Implementation Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), where she led an initiative called “Building Effective, Resilient, and Trusted Police Organizations in Mexico” in collaboration with Yale University. There, she led the adaptation and implementation of several projects such as Focused Deterrence of Violence, training on Procedural Justice, and the National Model of Citizen Security. Marina also has experience in crime prevention strategies through environmental design. She belongs to the Open Government Fellowship of the Organization of American States, and is a facilitator in transformative leadership at the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She holds a master's degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Glasgow.