EducationCalifornia Institute of Technology (undergraduate, attended; later transferred)

Notable personal detailsMarena Lin is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in California’s 32nd Congressional District in the 2026 election cycle. She has described herself as a climate scientist and public health software engineer, with experience leading a nonprofit food-security effort during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lin has stated she attended Granada Hills High School, started as an undergraduate at Caltech, transferred to Harvard (earning a PhD in climate science), and earned a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from UCLA.