She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico in 1996. Clerked for Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Judge Jose A. Andreu for a year before she started working at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in 1998. She has continued to work at the Federal Public Defender’s Office since then with the exception of a three year recess where among other things she was a Superior Court Judge for the Local Courts for a period of two years.