Professor Garcia joined the full-time faculty of the WCL Legal Rhetoric Program in 2020 after four years of teaching in the Program, first as a Graduate Teaching Fellow during the 2013-14 academic year, and later, as an Adjunct Professor. She has a B.A. in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a J.D., cum laude, from American University, Washington College of Law. During law school, she served as a Note & Comment Editor for the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law and as a Dean’s Fellow for the Program. Prior to joining the Program’s full-time faculty, she was the Executive Director of the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission. She has also served as an Attorney-Advisor for the Board of Veterans’ Appeals and as a law clerk to several magistrate judges on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.