Ms. Flores has been practicing indigent criminal defense since graduating from law school in 2011. She spent five years at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, where she represented death row clients on direct appeal and in post-conviction, and three years at the Center for Appellate Litigation in New York, New York, where she worked as a public defender representing clients in their direct appeals from felony convictions in state court. She joined the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 2019 as an Assistant Federal Defender in the Non-Capital Habeas Unit. Ms. Flores graduated from New York University in 2006 and received her J.D. from the NYU School of Law in 2011.