Dr. Ribeiro earned her BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and went on to complete her Masters and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at California Lutheran University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) Assessment Center and her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Center for Autism Research & Treatment (CART). She currently works at UCLA as a postdoctoral scholar and clinical instructor for a pioneering NIH funded autism biomarkers study. She is also an adjunct professor of Psychology in both graduate and undergraduate programs at California Lutheran University.