Ms. Hernández-Stern graduated from Brown University in 2005 and the UCLA School of Law in 2010 with concentrations in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy. After graduating, Ms. Hernández-Stern worked as a bilingual civil rights analyst at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Voting Section. Ms. Hernández-Stern then clerked for the Honorable Harry Pregerson, United States Circuit Judge for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Before joining Neighborhood Legal Services, Ms. Hernández-Stern worked as a litigation associate at the civil rights law firms of Traber & Voorhees and Hadsell Stormer & Renick.