Mandy graduated magna cum laude from the College of Redlands with a B.A. in Government. Mandy was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an educational honor society, and numerous local and national group service organizations including Mortar Board. Throughout college, Mandy worked within the Redlands Unified School District offering reading intervention strategies to at-danger college students. She then attended regulation college at Pepperdine University, the place she graduated with a Juris Doctor degree. Whereas at Pepperdine, Mandy spent a semester overseas in Pepperdine’s London Program. She additionally participated within the Particular Schooling Advocacy Clinic, the place she labored with families concerned within the IEP process.