She received her B.A. in Psychology in 2001 from Cornell University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology with concentrations in Health and Quantitative Psychology in 2009 from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2011. She completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar Fellowship jointly at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco. Her research centers around eating, dieting, stress, and weight stigma. See more at www.dishlab.org