Through her training in law and public health, and her work with several Medical-Legal Partnerships, she has learned to look for the socio-economic roots of health disparities and works toward minimizing such inequity. She is also a former 2nd grade teacher. In the fall of 2010, she served as an SF HRC legal intern, during which time she processed discrimination complaints in employment and public accommodation, helped to organize a public hearing on surveillance in Muslim, Arab and Middle Eastern Communities, and created a draft implementation plan for a City ordinance requiring agencies and NGOs that work with youth to participate in annual LGBT-sensitivity training. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Northeastern University School of Law, and Tufts University School of Public Health.