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 will be 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.
Rina was recently hired as the Academic and Literary Bookstore on the Cuesta College Campus. 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.
She was the Producer for Storytelling Sunday at The Green Room in Placerville, CA. She was the Associate Producer for the podcast Placertopia. Rina is dedicated to activism and is an advocate for bringing the voices of underrepresented artists into the forefront of her community.
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 Ms. Magazine.com. Her articles have been featured in 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. As well as a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science with a focus on Exhibitions, Archives, and community outreach.
She is currently working on a prose poetry chapbook and a creative non-fiction novel based on the female lineage of her Indigenous heritage. Her family line comes from the Purepecha people of the northwestern region of Michoacán, Mexico.
She is an advocate for women’s empowerment and volunteers to support human rights and environmental awareness campaigns. She was a member of the Sacramento Poetry Week Committee in 2024. She has been a member of the International Human Rights Day Committee from 2022 to 2025.
As a cultural and literary event coordinator, she was a creative designer for the Sugar Skull Art Walk project, 2023 and produced their poetry performances in 2024. Rina facilitates and hosts poetry events for her community which has included California poet Laureate, Lee Herrick, Grammy nominated poet Shawn William, Derrick Brown of Write Bloody Poetry, among many others.
