She has been practicing since 2011 providing advice about the best possible criminal defense from an immigration perspective and helping to devise strategies to minimize the immigration impact of clients’ criminal and family court proceedings. Nyasa also represents clients in removal defense proceedings and provides assistance to individuals applying for affirmative immigration benefits. Nyasa supervises both a Padilla team and a Youth & Communities team; she is also an adjunct professor of the Immigration Law Field Clinic at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.