Rita is tall and thin with lightly tanned skin. She has piercing, deep-set light brown eyes, a small nose, and a pointed chin. Her reddish-orange hair is very short and curly. She usually wears tacky, mismatched clothes.

Rita is twenty-eight years old and grew up in Far Harbor. Though she mostly trained to serve as a vet (and still does), since she has come to Bunker Hill she's been helping Madison as an assistant doctor.