She has previously served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc., where she founded and led the nation’s first medical-legal partnership (MLP) focused on children’s mental health and provided holistic civil legal services to adults and children with mental health needs. She is active in local and national MLP networks and has presented at national and state conferences. She has trained mental health professionals and clinical staff on legal topics and facilitated community legal clinics. She is a graduate of Yale University and New York University School of Law.