She has focused on inmates’ rights and access to religious accommodations, and equality of educational opportunity for English learner students. She grew up in Los Angeles, and graduated from Crenshaw High School before she graduated with Honors in Sociology with Political Science from Yale College. After college, she served as a Public Benefits Advocate for the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. At Harvard Law School, she was an editor for the Harvard Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review. Before joining the ACLU, she clerked for the Honorable Eldon E. Fallon in the Eastern District of Louisiana, and for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.