Ms. Gibson joined Simmons & Ungar, LLP in 2000.She graduated cum laude from the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in 1998. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from which she graduated with honors and received a B.A. in Latin American Studies. From December 1998 to October 2000, she served as Research Fellow and Coordinating Attorney of the Expedited Removal Study, a public policy study funded by the Ford Foundation and Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation. As Research Fellow and Coordinating Attorney, she examined the impact of immigration laws passed in 1996 on foreign travelers and asylum seekers.

Ms. Gibson has co-authored the following articles: The Developing Jurisprudence on Amnesty, 20 Human Rights Quarterly 843 (1998), and The Expedited Removal Study: Report on the First Three Years of Implementation of Expedited Removal, 15 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 1 (Special Issue, 2001).

Ms Gibson is fluent in Spanish.