Marcia, who received both her BS (1967) and MS (1969) degrees from UCLA, has been a staff member since 1970 in the Jules Stein Eye Institute laboratory of Professor Dean Bok. Over this thirty year period, Marcia has been directly involved in much of the research that has been conducted in Dr. Bok's laboratory, as well as supervising the work of the professional and support staff, undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and medical students who spend time in the laboratory.

Marcia is a highly skilled electron microscopist and spends considerable time training others in the use of the JSEI electron microscope, as well as many of the lab's research techniques.

Marcia, as a member of the JSEI Affiliates Advisory Committee, has been very active in the Vision In-School program sponsored by the National Eye Institute, where she visits elementary school classrooms throughout Los Angeles, teaching fourth and fifth grade students about the function of the eye and promoting vision safety.

Marcia and her husband Jeff, have been married 31 years and are the proud parents of Kim, a VISTA attorney working at the Legal Aid Foundation of Chicago, Stephanie, a staff member at the Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Cancer Prevention and entering the University of Pennsylvania Law School in the fall, and Zachary, a sophomore at Stanford.