Claudia K. Jurmain

Claudia Jurmain is Director of Special Projects and Publications at Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens in Long Beach, California. She began her work at the Smithsonian Institution as a research historian in the National Portrait Gallery and since then has developed and produced award-winning projects for museums, sites, and educational institutions across the country. She is coeditor of California: A Place, a People, a Dream (1986), author of Planting Perspectives: Natives and Newcomers at Rancho Los Alamitos (2002).