Prior to working as a solo practitioner, she worked as a staff attorney for the National Immigrant Justice Center's Counter-Trafficking Project, where she provided legal services to more than 40 adult and child victims of human trafficking. She has also been a legal consultant and trainer for Heartland Alliance's child trafficking prevention project in Haiti, which commenced after the January 12, 2010, earthquake. She is a graduate of University of Michigan Law School, and was a recipient of the Henry Bates and Clara Belfield Overseas Fellowship to conduct research on gender discrimination and citizenship law in Indian-Administered Kashmir. Her research resulted in an article entitled, "The Jammu and Kashmir State Subjects Controversy," published in the Drexel Law Review Symposium on South Asia and the Law, Spring 2010.