She earned a Ph.D. in technical communication and rhetoric at Utah State University. Her research focuses on women in technical communication, historically, professionally, technologically, and extra-institutionally. She enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with her two children. She has conducted research in India and is currently planning an archival research trip to South Africa and Botswana to look at technical documentation from women’s organizations as part of an effort to recognize women’s historical and global technical communication work. She can be reached at [email protected].