Klimist. She was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California, but moved on when she left for college and never looked back. She graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, cum laude, with a double major in Political Science and English (2009) and earned her Juris Doctor and Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law from Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2012). Jhiela also further developed her education throughout her schooling by studying in Florence, Italy (2008); Istanbul, Turkey (2010); and Cape Town, South Africa (2011).