Her photography is a product of her environment. Mata’s work has been published and featured in Vice's Noisey, Vibe Magazine, The Source Magazine, Mass Appeal (Magazine), and Frank151. She has volunteered and worked with various non-profit organizations such as MIRA, part of the East River Park Coalition dedicated to that park and its surrounding community, volunteered at San Anto Cultural as an assistant photography teacher during their summer workshops, as well as interned at The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Mata has attended La Guardia Community College and San Antonio College with a focus in Photojournalism. She has recently exhibited her photography in a group exhibition at the Mexic-Arte Museum, Young Latino Artists 21: Amexican@ 2016. In 2014 Mata exhibited photographs she took of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy at the Museum of New York City Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy Exhibition.