Her research focuses on how factors at the individual-, school-, and community-levels contribute to reading and numeracy difficulties in children. She is particularly interested in the identification of sources of academic achievement difficulties in children in order to guide prevention, intervention, and instructional practices. Her work has been published in the Journal of Learning Disabilities and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice. Her graduate training was supported by funds from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategic Training Programme in Community Health Research. She earned her Ph.D. in educational and counseling psychology and special education from the University of British Columbia in 2006.