She practiced in the areas of commercial litigation, corporate and insurance law. An LCCU co-founder, she provides substantial support on LCCU’s personnel administration and corporate organization. Scanga serves on the board of the Duke University Health System Institutional Review Board, where her particular interest is the accessibility and fairness of clinical trials to minorities. She also serves on the advisory board for Latino Journalism and Media at Carolina initiative of the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication, a cultural development effort dedicated to improve journalism and strategic communication of Latino issues in North Carolina and beyond. She has a J.D. and an M.A. in Communications from the University of North Carolina, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Manhattanville College.