Rita Joiner Soza started a second career as a full-time community college professor of business management in 2006 upon winding up her human resources executive career with a Fortune 100 company.  She is a tenured faculty member of MiraCosta College in San Diego County. A Los Angeles native, Soza was Helen Miller Bailey’s student at East Los Angeles College in the late sixties.  She later earned an MBA degree from University of California, Irvine. Helen Miller Bailey’s biography is Soza’s first book.