She obtained her Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). Her research is published in Computers in Human Behavior and International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education. She has presented at discipline conferences such as Southern Association of Information Systems (SAIS), the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), and the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Dr. Oakley is actively involved with the PhD Project's Information Systems Doctoral Student Association (ISDSA) and is also a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).