Maritza was born in Los Angeles but has lived in San Diego for the majority of her life. She graduated from SDSU (Go Aztecs!) She worked for the Chula Vista district for 10 years, providing speech therapy to kiddos Preschool to 6th grade. She loves interacting with kids. She is a wife and a mother of two girls, ages 9 and 12. Her favorite things to do are seeing her girls play sports, sushi dates with her husband and road trips with the family.