Lallie began her career working in autism-specific residential facilities before becoming a behavior specialist at a special education school in Chicago. She transitioned to a classroom teacher at Chicago Public Schools before deciding to go back to school to get certified in chemistry and ended up staying for ten years to get PhD in chemistry. The experience of being a woman working in the field making nanomaterials as a postdoc in a lab for Sony was eye-opening. She chose to focus her career path back on education and started teaching math at her kids’ school. As a teacher, Lallie developed a curriculum for a green chemistry course and became a mentor for the South Eugene Robotics team. She also received her commercial drone license and established a STEM program focused on drone learning. She developed the curriculum for and taught an engineering technology CTE program. She is currently piloting an empathetic engineering program for her school district, based on her experience mentoring robotics teams to build and program mobility tools for babies and toddlers with disabilities to eliminate barriers children face as they begin to enter critical social environments through the Go Baby Go program.