She has coordinated and volunteered with the Homeless Legal Clinic at Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless since 2007, and volunteered for a Street Law clinic during law school.She tutored in homeless shelters in high school, and was an activist and organizer during her college years, demonstrating, sleeping out, and coordinating with Legal Aid to bring a busload of demonstrators from Greensboro and Winston Salem, North Carolina to the Housing Now! March on Washington in 1989.