Jessenia is a Skadden Fellow at Rights Behind Bars. Her Skadden Project aims to expand legal representation access for indigent detained noncitizens by filing Petitions for Review and training partners to replicate this model nationwide. Prior to joining RBB, Jessenia served as a judicial law clerk. 

Jessenia attended Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard Immigration and Refugeee Clinical Progam. While in law school, Jessenia interned at RBB, Public Justice, and the MacArthur Justice Center's Supreme Court and Appellate Program. Before law school, she was a program associate at Justice Catalyst Law and Justice Catalyst.

Jessenia is licensed to practice in California.