Law

Maria Villa was “born with a strong sense of justice,” but it wasn’t until she witnessed unfair actions against her parents’ family business that she decided to follow her convictions. Villa was in her senior year at CSUDH at the time, working in her parents’ stretched canvas manufacturing business in Torrance and contemplating graduate school to earn an MBA: “Seeing how my parents were taken advantage of at times by customers and vendors who knew how to work the system made me want to become an attorney so I could help small business owners stand up for and learn about their rights,” says Villa, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from CSUDH in 1982 and a Juris ... Read More