She is a fourth-generation lawyer and a 2006 graduate of the Vanderbilt Law School, where she served on the boards of various organizations, including the editorial board of the Vanderbilt Law Review, Moot Court, the Legal Aid Society, the Phi Delta Phi legal service fraternity, and OUTLaw. Upon graduating, she received the Damali A. Booker Award for legal activism from her fellow students and the Bennett Douglas Bell Memorial Prize from the law school faculty. Her note, "The Ethical Bar and the LSC: Wrestling with Restrictions on Federally Funded Legal Aid," was published in the April 2006 issue of the Vanderbilt Law Review. She is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and Virginia. She has a B.A. from Kenyon College and an M.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to law school, she spent nearly twenty years as a professional musician, copyeditor, secretary, and book retailer. She joined BRLS in November 2006.