College Education
At UC Berkeley, she earned two Bachelor's degrees in Legal Studies and African American Studies (AAS). At the time, Mitzia hoped to enroll in law school after college so she held an internship position as a Legal Advocate at Immigrants Rising. In this position, she was trained to screen undocumented people for eligibility for possible pathways to citizenship. In her senior year, she enrolled in the AAS senior capstone course to pursue an honors thesis, which documented anti-blackness, colorism, and ignorance of Afro-Latinidad in the Latinx community. Her thesis and exceptional academic record led her to become the 2020 Valedictorian of the AAS graduating class.