Rita’s instructional journey began in 1994 at the Redlands Adult School in California, where she was assigned with teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to complete beginners, many of whom were also illiterate in their own languages, which were unfamiliar to her. This experience served as a key point in her career, helping her to assess various theories and develop an essential aspect of her teaching philosophy over the following decades.
In 1997, she earned a certificate in professional translation and interpretation from the University of California, Riverside. She then studied Linguistics for Translation under Eugenio Coseriu—one of the 20th century’s most influential linguists—at the Ricardo Palma University in Peru. Subsequently, she consolidated her academic credentials at the National University Federico Villarreal, graduating with a degree in Education specialized in foreign languages.
This milestone capped a decade of balancing academic teaching and corporate training. She lectured at the Femenina del Sagrado Corazón University (UNIFE) while working as a translator and corporate trainer for major global organizations—including Colgate-Palmolive, G4S, and the Naval Medical Research Institute Detachment—as well as private clients preparing for international exams like TESOL and IELTS.
Seeking to deepen her teaching expertise, she turned her attention to the complexities of her native language. She obtained formal qualifications specializing in teaching Spanish as a foreign language from from the world-renowned Instituto Cervantes.
In 2007, she relocated to Canada, quickly joining the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver to teach Spanish within the Continuing Education department. By 2009, she began teaching undergraduate courses in Spanish —including Translation and Latin American films, at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where she remained for nearly a decade.
She then pursued postgraduate studies to fuse her decades of classroom experience with emerging digital methodologies and the pedagogical thought of R. de la Ferrière. She achieved a Master of Educational Technology from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Arts from Simon Fraser University. This intense period of study allowed her to systematically link modern digital design with deep-tier educational theories within the context of Raynaud de la Ferrière’s concept of the Age of Knowledge—an innovative thought that she had first encountered in her early twenties.
Back in her early twenties, she encountered the foundation of Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière’s through its Institute of Yoga in Lima. What she initially anticipated to be a simple physical discipline instead revealed a comprehensive body of work encompassing ontological, dialectical, and theoretical discourses on thought and science itself. Additionally, she discovered an extensive literary corpus comprising over 4,000 pages of complex literature spanning more than 100 themes ranging from science to philosophy and from the arts to didactics. At its core lay a central thesis that deeply captivated her: The Age of Knowledge and its potential to radically transform our existence.
This interest led her to study under David Ferriz Olivares, the translator, exegete and emblematic disciple R. de la Ferrière’s. There, she witnessed the deep internal conflicts within the institution’s leadership that ultimately compelled Ferriz to leave the foundation to safeguard, R. de la Ferrière’s true teaching. Carrying these consolidated intellectual and mystical foundations with her, she moved to the United States in 1991 to continue her post-secondary education.
Today, Rita operates as a leading independent scholar on Raynaud de la Ferrière’s educational legacy. Recognizing that much of his original thought —and the preservation efforts of David Ferriz—has been distorted over time, she is dedicated to restoring and defending the precision of this intellectual lineage.