Alicia graduated with a BA in Psychology from UNL. She worked in the Race and Ethnic Psychology Lab during her undergraduate training. Then, she moved to sunny Hawaii for graduate training at University of Hawaii, Hilo, where she received the MA in Clinical Psychology. She has been working as a therapist but has decided she loves research and has rejoined the Race and Ethnic Psychology Lab to continue to examine Latinx health and wellbeing. She will enter PHD training at University of Detroit, Mercy in Fall of 2024.