Her research focuses on early childhood education, family characteristics and neighborhood disadvantage that impact children’s lives. She is passionate about early childhood teachers’ social and emotional well-being and the way it impacts young children’s development. A great deal of her research interest focuses on the associations between teachers’ social-emotional capacity (e.g., depression, stress, efficacy, motivation, commitment, etc.) and children’s executive functioning and social and emotional learning. She also examines how early childhood education buffers challenging home and neighborhood environments, and maximizes at-risk children’s cognitive and social-emotional development.