She received her undergraduate degree from George Washington University. She earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and her medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. She completed her urology residency at Baylor College of Medicine and her pediatric fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington School of Medicine. She currently serves on the AUA Judicial and Ethics Committee of the AUA and is the Associate Urology Residency Program Director at the University of Colorado. Her research interests include health disparities in children with congenital urologic anomalies and the role of shared decision making in optimizing surgical outcomes.