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I worked at DU Law School for five years, consulted briefly with the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) at NCAR, and worked for a law firm in Seattle.

Staff attorney, Native American Rights Fund

I was in private practice in Denver for about a year and a half. Before that, I was a Colorado Public Defender for nearly seven years.

I clerked for three years after law school (at all three levels of the federal judiciary) and then worked for the Justice Department for four years, in the Office of Legal Counsel, which advises components of the Justice Department and other executive branch actors on statutory and constitutional issues.

Teaching at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana; before that, teaching at the University of Wyoming and at Emory in Atlanta; before that, practice in San Francisco.

Immediately before I arrived I was climbing Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Before that I was working as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, finishing a book on legal negotiation. I also clerked for Justice Charles Fried on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

I was clerking for Marilyn Hall Patel, then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. I also clerked for Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

I was teaching at the University of Puget Sound Law School (now Seattle University). Before that I worked at Covington & Burling in Washington D.C. doing tax, antitrust, and a lot of pro bono work (mostly constitutional law).

Practicing law at Stoel Rives LLP in Seattle, in the firm's Construction and Design Group.

I worked as a law librarian for Denver District Court and DU Law Library, and then as a transactional attorney.

Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division

I was a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern Law School

I was a substitute teacher in the Saint Vrain Valley Schools

I was in-house counsel in Adams County School District 14 and Alternative High School Principal

Waitress. 3 years at the Cheesecake Factory in Denver

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska and Director of Minority and Justice Task Force for the Nebraska Supreme Court, 2000-2003

During college, most of my professional experience was political in nature. I worked for United Food & Commercial Worker?s Union as a Political Coordinator / Legal Intern. In this role, I educated union members on political issues that affected their interests, coordinated voter registration activities, and managed staff to execute a statewide political plan. Further, I met with Colorado legislators regarding union member concerns.

Working at a local Hugh M. Woods building materials store.

I worked as a White House staffer in the Clinton Administration for two and a half years. Specifically, I was a legislative aide in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs (located in the East Wing.) In that capacity, I wrote weekly reports to the President and nightly reports for senior White House staff on the activities of the Congress and the progress of the Administration's legislative agenda. It was a great job -- a dream job, really.

At the end of the Clinton Administration, I accepted a job on Capitol Hill as press secretary and legislative advisor to Congressman Pete Stark, a senior Member of the House of Representatives and one of the ranking members of the powerful Ways & Means Committee. I also served as the Congressman's interim chief of staff.

After working for Congressman Stark, I accepted a fellowship through the Robert Bosch Foundation to work in the German government for a year. During my year living in Berlin, I worked in the German Foreign Ministry and the German Bundestag (parliament.) Living and working in Berlin was a memorable experience -- and I came away from it with a much better command of the German language, and a high appreciation for German beer!

After my year in Germany, I moved back to my home state of Colorado to attend law school at CU.

I?m on the fast-track and came to law school straight from undergrad.

I went straight through from the University of Wyoming.

I was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps stationed in Iwakuni, Japan.

I worked for the Chicago Field Office of the Department of Justice?s Antitrust Division for two years directly after graduating from college. As a paralegal hired through the Outstanding Scholars Program, I worked closely with attorneys in price-fixing, bid-rigging, territorial allocation, civil merger, and global cartel investigations.

I was living and working in an indigenous Maya community in the Ixcan Jungle in Guatemala, working on a genocide case. (1 yr) Before that, I was a mutual fund accountant at State Street Bank in Boston, MA (1 yr).

I was doing post-doctoral research in Neuroscience at Brandeis University. As part of my research I was doing experiments to create ?forgetful?fruit-flies by introducing mutations in a gene that we suspected was involved in memory formation.

Was a technical writer for an aircraft company and then worked for the forest service

I had the privilege of being a stay at home mom for three years before coming back to school. I also taught for Kaplan Test Prep and was a preschool teacher. Before that, I worked for the Educational Testing Service (of SAT/GRE/GMAT fame) helping to redesign how the tests were developed and administered.