Clisha was awarded the full-tuition Woodruff Scholarship to attend Emory Law School, where she was a student attorney at the Emory Environmental Law Clinic and a Research Assistant for the Journal of Law and Religion. Through law school, she interned at the Environmental Protection Agency, Georgia ACLU, City of Austin Law Department, Fulton County Superior Court, and the Southern Center for Human Rights. She successfully argued for her incarcerated client’s release on parole while at the Southern Center.
Before law school, she unionized working class tenants and conducted eviction prevention work as a tenant organizer in Austin, Dallas, and Washington D.C. She holds a B.S. in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Texas at Dallas.