She clerked for the Honorable Jack L. Landau at the Oregon Supreme Court and the Honorable Robyn Ridler Aoyagi at the Oregon Court of Appeals. She received her J.D. summa cum laude from Lewis & Clark Law School and earned her B.A. in English from Grinnell College. She is completing a postgraduate certificate at the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. Nora previously served on the Street Roots Board. She is a founding member of the RISE Board.