She was the founder and former Executive Director of the Eviction Defense Network, a social entrepreneurship project dedicated to ensuring access to justice to the 70,000 tenants that face eviction in L.A. county each year. Until April 3004, she was the Directing Attorney of the Housing Unit at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA). LAFLA has a 72 year history of providing comprehensive legal services to low-income residents of metro L.A.