Molina earned a B.S. in Neuroscience and a B.A. in Anthropology from Emory University, where she studied how empathy supports adult caregiving among dementia caregivers. She joined Dr. Dean Mobbs' lab at Caltech as a research assistant under the Chen SDN Predoctoral Fellowship program, where she studied safety perception under threat. She is currently a graduate student at Brown University in the Feldmanhall lab. She is broadly interested in using neuroimaging, behavioral paradigm, and computational modeling to study human social decision-making under uncertainty.