Just two years after graduating from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Dennericka started working for the school as a BLSA Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Coach. In 2013 she became a part-time faculty member, and later an adjunct faculty member, teaching trial practice. Since 2011 she has, in partnership with DLA Piper, managed the Woodlawn Legal Clinic, which provides advice and representation to low-income families on Chicago's Southside. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards from Loyola Law School—including the Norman C. Amaker Award of Excellence, the St. Bellarmine Award, and the Mock Trial Coach of the Year—and of the Jerold S. Solovy Equal Justice Award, given annually to the LAF attorney whose work embodies what it means to be a poverty lawyer,