She previously worked as an associate attorney at Bryan Cave LLP in St. Louis and volunteered at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. During law school, Ms. Brauer served as an Articles Editor for Ecology Law Quarterly and as Co-President of the Environmental Law Society. She earned the Jurisprudence Award in Insurance Law and was a Negotiations Competition Finalist. In addition, Ms. Brauer completed externships at both the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., and for the Office of the General Counsel for the Regents of the University of California. She also volunteered for the California Asylum Representation Clinic.