Received undergraduate degree from Stanford University and law degree in 2009 from Georgetown Law, where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar. Worked as Current Developments Editor of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal and was awarded a post-graduate human rights fellowship by Georgetown’s Human Rights Institute.

Attorney at Advancement Project in Washington D.C. working to combat harsh school discipline practices and zero tolerance policies that push children away from an academic track and on to a track to prison. Human rights fellow at the Open Society Institute working on post-9/11 civil liberties issues including detention policy, surveillance, and racial profiling.

Currently a trial attorney with the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles and sits on the Board of the Muslim Public Affairs Council as Chair. Credits Westridge as her "foundation ... where brilliant educators pushed us to deeper levels of analysis and social consciousness."