She currently serves as the director of the Nonprofit, Community, and Leadership Initiative and is the Graduate Coordinator for SEPA. She received her doctorate from the Reubin Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University in 2006. Her research focuses on capacity building in the public and nonprofit sector. Her work has been published inPublic Administration Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Personnel Management, and the Journal for Nonprofit Management, Journal of Management,Spirituality and Religion, and The Innovation Journal. She recently worked with Opportunity Knocks to publish a report, Engaging the Nonprofit Workforce, which examines the engagement of nonprofit employees nationally.