Marta attends college, loves cats, art in many forms, video games, and reading in the park. Her hobbies include performing stand-up comedy and poetry on the weekends, recycling trash off the streets of Sacramento and making it into art, reading local poetry books, and finding new places to eat around the city. Marta entered foster care around the age of 7 years old and was separated from her siblings and put in a group home. She and her siblings cycled through foster homes, her parents given chance after chance. Marta later became a ward of the court and was then placed in a relative placement.. She is the first in her family to graduate from high school and to obtain an associate's degree.