Ricardo joined Ad Astra on February 2022. He is a third-year law student from the University of Puerto Rico, specializing in environmental and administrative law. He was a fellow for the National Science Foundation's Rising Voices, Changing Coasts Hub, a coastal research project that brings together university-trained scientists and Indigenous knowledge-holders to study the interactions between natural, human-built and social systems in coastal populated environments. He is also the Writer in Chief for the University of Puerto Rico Law Review, where he has published articles on a variety of legal topics. His personal interests include competitive volleyball, as a former member of the Youth National Puerto Rico Volleyball Team, and poetry, as he is published in several anthologies and literary magazines.