Before CLINIC, Ms. Mendez served as senior managing attorney in the Immigration Legal Services Program at Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C., where she began her career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by DLA Piper. From 2013 to 2016, she co-taught the Immigration Litigation Clinic at Catholic University Columbus School of Law and served as a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and as an Adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law this past spring.