Berlinessa is the Project Coordinator for Disability Rights of Rhode Island. She is a recent graduate of Rhode Island College where she earned her B.S. in Marketing and minor in Data Analytics. She has worked for a nonprofit all-girls school as a marketing associate. She also has 4+ years working with patients in the healthcare field as a Pharmacy Technician and as a Patient Service Representative of Psychiatry.

Berlinessa is Dominican and fluent in Spanish. She believes in being a bridge for those who need translation from English to Spanish and assisting in any way to make people feel represented and heard. In her free time, she enjoys embracing her creative side by doing arts and crafts, event planning, and more.