She holds a PhD in Public Management from the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her focus is on organization theory and the management of public, nonproﬁt, and health care organizations, and specializes in inter-organizational networks and network analysis. She has conducted the network analysis for a child and youth health network in Canada, a National Institutes of Health grant examining the Tobacco Quitline Consortium, a USAID funded project examining the organizations serving children impacted by HIV/Aids in India, and a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project examining the health system in Uttar Pradesh India. She is currently working with local organizations in Southwest Virginia on analyzing and building networks around child health and development as well as hunger relief.