Carey is a legal support and Legal Observer coordinator for the NLG SF Bay Area Chapter, and currently sits on the NLG’s national Mass Defense Steering Committee. Her commitment to NLG work led her to become a certified paralegal, and she currently freelances doing court-appointed work for the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) federal panel of the Northern District of California on capital appeals, and has been retained for civil rights cases around jail conditions throughout the area.