She received her diploma in architecture (with honors) from the AA in 2001. She has been a lecturer in architecture and landscape architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design since 2010. Asensio Villoria was a design studio instructor in the graduate design school at the AA from 2004 to 2007 and a Visiting Lecturer in Architecture at Cornell from 2006 to 2010. Leire is currently teaching at the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.