Elica was born and raised in London and moved to California for law school. Elica attended Pepperdine Law School where she received her JD and followed up with an LLM in Criminal Justice at Loyola.
While in law school, Elica was on Law Review and became an Editor of the law review subsequently. She also participated in trial advocacy, coming first place in the cross examination competition. Elica is now a Litigation Attorney at Jacoby & Meyers.
In her free time, Elica is a musician as well as an advocate for human rights.