Rina’s talent comes to life when performing her spoken word poetry. She has been the featured Spoken Word Performer for El Dorado County’s Poet Laureate program, a featured poet at Placerville’s Human Rights Day, and was featured at Chateau Duvall with the current Poet Laureate in November 2023. She was the featured poet for the Myrtle Tree art events Earth Data in 2022, Fireland in 2023, and was a featured performer for the event Ripe Area in 2024 and 2025.
She has completed a certification in Book Bindery and Zine Making. She participates in Library Archive projects and is a collaborating Artist for Myrtle Tree Arts. Rina is dedicated to activism and is an advocate for bringing the voices of underrepresented artists into the forefront of her community.
She was the Producer for Storytelling Sunday at The Green Room in Placerville, CA. She was the Associate Producer for the podcast Placertopia.
Rina was published in the GTFO Poetry Anthology released in 2024. She was published in Art and Culture El Dorado’s chapbook Poets of the Firehouse Sessions, 2023. She was a freelance reporter for The Mountain Democrat. She has written and produced for The California Business Journal, dametraveler.com, and Performer Magazine. Her poetry has been featured in The Mountain Democrat, the literary journals Community Soliloquies, Lantern Magazine, and Coalesce.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature from Sacramento State University. Currently earning a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science with a focus on Exhibitions, Archives, and community outreach.
Her work examines and critiques the human condition, womanhood, and explores divine feminine sensuality. She is currently working on a prose-poetry chapbook and a creative nonfiction novel based on the female lineage of her Indigenous heritage. Her family line comes from the Purépecha people of northwestern Michoacán, Mexico.
She was a member of the Sacramento Poetry Week Committee in 2024. She served on the International Human Rights Day Committee from 2022 to 2025.
As a culture keeper and literary event coordinator, she served as a creative designer for the Sugar Skull Art Walk project in 2023 and produced its poetry performances in 2024. Rina advocates for the voices of underrepresented artists within her community. She facilitates and hosts poetry events for her community, which has included California poet Laureate Lee Herrick, Grammy-nominated poet Shawn William, and Derrick Brown of Write Bloody Poetry, among many others.
