Aria Mia Loberti never intended to be an actor. Until last year, the 29-year-old was pursuing a carefully plotted career in academia. In 2020, Loberti graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island with a triple major in communication studies, political science, and philosophy. She was awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship and spent a year in London completing a master’s in rhetoric at Royal Holloway. In 2021, she was accepted into a Ph.D. program at Penn State, where she intended to explore the works of Plato, the reception of ancient women’s voices, and the role of the supernatural in ancient literature.
Her résumé, which includes a TEDx Talk with views into the thousands and volunteer positions with the United Nations and UNICEF, is of a polymath you would expect to quickly land a tenured teaching position.
