Leonela Villegas is from Colchester, Connecticut, though both of her parents are from Peru and she makes annual trips to Lima to visit family. She has also traveled to the Amazon, Machu Picchu, and Cancun. She is a proud graduate of Bacon Academy High School where she performed with the dance team and volunteered at Youth United for Survival. At UConn she will be majoring in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in pre-medicine.