In law school she was director of the Homeless Outreach Project and a founding member of the Boalt Hall Chapter of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as well as a volunteer at the California Asylum Representation Clinic.
Prior to joining the office she interned at the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights and the Youth Law Center.
From 2010 to 2021 she was assistant Federal Public Defender in the Northern District of California, where she served as the forensic staff attorney.
In that capacity, she successfully challenged the government's ability to obtain cell cite location data without a search warrant.
In the fall of 2005, Dyleski, then 16, was accused of beating the wife, Pamela Vitale, of prominent criminal defense attorney Daniel Horowitz to death in their Lafayette, California home.