She is a faculty affiliate of the Development Studies Program, the Land Tenure Center, the Institute for Environmental Studies, the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program and Women's Studies, all at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include technology adoption in agriculture, consumer acceptance of agricultural biotechnology, the role of women in farm decision making especially technology decisions, the role of women and children in agricultural production and environmental and economic trade-offs of farm production decisions. She teaches family and household economics, econometrics, and production economics at the graduate and undergraduate level. From 1996 to 1998 she worked for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as an economist. Her PhD and MS degrees in agricultural economics are from the University of California at Davis.