Valeria holds an AB from Dartmouth College in Music and English and is pursuing an MSt at the University of Cambridge in Writing for Performance. While a Dartmouth student, she was the 2023-2024 Development Fellow for the Hopkins Center and was awarded the 2024 Sudler Prize for her dedication to arts administration. Additionally, Valeria completed ethnomusicology research in the Mississippi Delta studying the connection between the Civil Rights Movement and Blues music.