Lorena is on the board of Raices Culturales Latinoamericanas and served as President of the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania. She is a Deputy Regional President of the Hispanic National Bar Association, for whom she advocates in Congress on issues of immigration reform and diversity on the federal judiciary. She received her law degree from George Washington University Law School in 2003. Prior to attending law school, Lorena served as a political appointee in the Clinton Administration. She was born in Limache, Chile and became a U.S. citizen in 1995.