Richa moved to Seattle in 2010, and became a client of NWIRP in 2011. She retrained to be a software engineer through the Ada Developers Academy, an intensive software development training program for women in Seattle. While at Ada, she created a custom case database program for NWIRP. Richa previously volunteered as a tax preparer and tax preparation instructor for United Way of King County. Richa has a degree in Physics from the University of Delhi.