She has taught capstone mathematics courses for secondary teachers at the University of Michigan and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Additionally, she has taught secondary mathematics methods at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in mathematics (specializing in spaces of actions of Coxeter groups on n-dimensional hyperbolic space) and subsequently held post-doctoral positions with the Department of Mathematics and then with the School of Education at the University of Michigan. Her research area is mathematical knowledge for teaching. She has presented her work at conferences including AMTE, RUME, AERA, and JMM.