She completed her graduate work at the California School of Professional Psychology at AIU, a program which was the recipient of the APA Suinn Minority Achievement Award for its diversity training and its rate of graduating diverse students. In her postdoctoral fellowship at VA San Diego Healthcare System/UCSD, she served on the diversity committee, completed formal diversity and social justice advocacy mentorships, and co-contributed diversity training materials to the UCSD Department of Psychiatry.1/27/2017