Kitra graduated with a Juris Doctorate from UNL Law School in May 2022 with an emphasis on Disability Law and alternatives to criminalization (i.e. Mediation and Restorative Justice) before beginning her Ph.D. in Social and Cognitive Psychology. Throughout law school, she worked for Disability Rights Nebraska where she worked on legal responses to the COVID-19 crisis, employment and school-based discrimination cases, and the monitoring of long-term care facilities. Currently, her research interests include legal decision-making outcomes for victims and perpetrators of violence, specifically in sex trafficking and domestic violence scenarios. 

She also has experience in applied work through numerous trial consulting projects and by conducting program evaluations of social and governmental agencies both locally and through the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Kitra was also elected to become a member of the Board of Directors for the ACLU of Nebraska. When Kitra is not working, studying, or serving her community, she loves to spend time with her spouse, Kian, and her menagerie of 12 pets. Much of her free time goes towards renovating her home, and she enjoys reading, cooking, painting, and sewing as her hobbies.