Marquita Granda was born and raised on Kaua’i. She completed her BS in Nursing and BA in Spanish at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa where she also continued on to graduate school. In 2015, she graduated as a family nurse practitioner and worked in a federally qualified community health center on O’ahu. In 2016, she moved to Portland, Oregon where she worked in urgent care while specializing as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU). Upon graduating from OHSU, she worked in a large interventional psychiatry practice in the middle of Portland. Then in 2022, she moved back to Hawai’i with her partner to raise their daughter and open a psychiatry practice to serve her local community.