She earned her law degree from New York University, where she participated in the capital defender clinic, in Montgomery, Alabama with the Equal Justice Initiative. While at EJI she worked with clients on Alabama�s death row, and assisted in the organization�s litigation of the landmark Supreme Court case Graham v. Florida, which ended the practice of sentencing juveniles to life without parole for non-homicide crimes. During law school she also interned with the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project, and the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. Before her legal career, Ada worked for the Speaker of the California State Assembly. She is licensed to practice law in Louisiana.