Between 2009 and 2013, she undertook doctoral research on comparative charity regulation as a Trudeau Foundation Scholar at the University of Oxford. In 2015, she received the Scholarly Paper Award from the Canadian Association of Law Teachers for her article entitled “The Co-optation of Charitable Resources by Threatened Welfare States.” Her first book, The Public-Private Nature of Charity Law, was published by Hart Bloomsbury in November 2016. She previously practiced at a boutique charity law firm in Vancouver, and is a former executive member of both the national and BC branches of the CBA Charity and Not-for-Profit Law Subsection.