Hope comes to the Travis County Public Defender's Office from the Arizona Justice Project where she represented indigent clients on post-conviction review as the Project's Quattrone Strategic Litigation Counsel. While at the Arizona Justice Project, Hope also drafted and lobbied for bills at the Arizona State Legislature. Hope received a B.A. in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine and holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago. After graduating law school, Hope spent two years in West Virginia as the Justice Franklin D. Cleckley Fellow for the West Virginia Innocence Project.