She has worked on economic justice impact litigation cases, including educational equity cases and an action against the City of Los Angeles for failing to connect mentally disabled homeless prisoners with essential services upon their release from jail, as well as acting as a lead attorney on a gender equality case defending the rights of a transgender child to access education (Brar v. Heritage Oak). Alisa served as a law clerk to the Hon. Dean D. Pregerson of the District Court for the Central District of California and the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College (B.A.), Brown University (PhD), and the UC Irvine School of Law (J.D.).