She started her career in the White House Office of National Service where she helped create the AmeriCorps National Service Program. Later, she co-founded Link Research and helped launch Stand for Children. As a Skadden Fellow, she founded the Family Court Education Project. After 9/11, she spearheaded terrorism-preparedness efforts as Senior Aide to the NYC Fire Commissioner and became a Senior Fellow in the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Now in the world of early-stage companies, she served as General Manager at Axiom Legal and is an executive at ideeli.