She earned a B.A. with Honors from Wesleyan University in the College of Social Studies and her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law. During law school, Rashida served as an intern for the Honorable Charles R. Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Cowan, DeBeats, Abraham & Sheppard; Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center; and Dyax Corp. Rashida was also selected as a research assistant for Professor Margaret Burnham in Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, where she participated in a landmark Civil Rights action against a county in Mississippi for a kidnapping and murder that took place in 1964. This suit was the first of its kind. Before joining CHLP, Rashida worked at Facebook Inc. and HIP Investor in San Francisco.