Rita received her undergraduate degree from the University of California—Santa Barbara in Biological Anthropology. There, she conducted research in one of the university’s research facilities and published a work in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. She hopes to combine her passions for law and science/medicine and practice in personal injury litigation. At LLS, she is on the editorial board of the Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law and clerks for Rossi Law Group (Workers' Compensation Defense Firm). She also mentors first-generation pre-law students through the Legal Education Access Pipeline Program. Rita plays violin and piano and enjoys cooking in her spare time.