 Mora began her professional career in 1989, at the Ministry of Justice of Costa Rica headed by Odio Benítez.From 1989 to 1993, she was national chief of the legal department, national chief of advocacy, member of the National Institute of Criminology, and advisor to the women's section of the General Human Rights Ombudsman.Between 1993 and 2002, she was the director of the women's section of the .