She has worked with the California Women’s Law Center in Los Angeles, where she focused on training attorneys and non-attorneys alike on a range of legislative, employment and civil rights issues. She was also an attorney in private practice with an emphasis in employment law. After graduating from the University of California Davis School of Law, she clerked for the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeal. Ms. Hirsch currently serves in a variety of volunteer capacities, including on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps where she is a former Chair and most recently helped create the Corps’ Legal Services Support Program. She is married to Philip Recht and has two children.