Hisela Beatriz Rauda of Tujunga was among the approximately 270 students who completed their degree requirements at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated at the conclusion of the spring semester.

Rauda earned a Master of Science in occupational therapy professional development.

Mount Mary University was founded in 1913 by the School Sisters of Notre Dame and was Wisconsin’s first four-year, degree-granting Catholic institution for women. Today it serves a minority-majority population and offers more than 30 undergraduate majors for women and nine graduate programs for women and men in four schools.