She is currently the academic director of the Dance Program at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Santurce, a central zone of San Juan.
[3] Scholars and curators such as Sarah G. Sharp, Harmony Bench, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Paloma Martinez-Cruz, and Elizabeth Currans have analyzed her work and interviewed her.
After finishing her degree at Columbia College Chicago, Rodríguez Lora relocated to Oakland, California to live with her partner and partake in an artist residency program based in San Francisco.
[14] Since 2013, Rodríguez Lora has been performing iterations of a piece entitled La Mujer Maravilla (a Puerto Rican iteration of William Moulton Marston's Wonder Woman as a feminist icon) in which Rodríguez Lora explores motherhood, community, and gender in a diasporic and Caribbean context marked by poverty, financial austerity, and natural disasters, highlighting the concept of "sustento" (sustenance).
In 2014, Rodríguez Lora participated in Call & Response, a dynamic of Black Women & Performance at Antioch College curated by Gabrielle Civil featuring the artists Duriel E. Harris, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Rosamond S. King, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and Miré Regulus.
[15] In 2019, Awilda Rodríguez Lora received a grant for presenting and multidisciplinary works from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture.
[20] Rodríguez-Lora has received substantial critical reception, including interviews, scholarly analysis, and coverage in the most important newspaper in Puerto Rico, El Nuevo Día.
[13] Rodríguez-Lora is one of the artists featured in Susan Homar and nibia pastrana santiago's anthology Inhabiting the Impossible: Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico, which is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press in 2023.
[6] Women's studies scholar Elizabeth Currans (Eastern Michigan University) has analyzed Rodríguez-Lora's collaboration with performance artist, poet, and educator Gabrielle Civil in an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora.
[7] Independent curator and scholar Abdiel D. Segarra has written about Rodríguez-Lora in a lengthy piece on the internet, movement, and contemporary dance in Puerto Rico originally published in the magazine of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Institute of Puerto Rican Culture) in September 2017, comparing Rodríguez-Lora's work to that of dancer Noemí Segarra and visual artist, choreographer, and performer Marili Pizarro.