She earned her J.D. from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco and her Ph.D. in Women's Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research examines legal responses to violence against Indian women through a transnational lens, highlighting the impact of migrating spouses, traveling cultures and shifting bodies of law in the diaspora. Her work has been published in Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, WSQ, Violence Against Women and theColumbia Journal of Gender and Law. She was a co-editor of a book entitled, New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights published by Routledge in 2011. Her current research examines the contradictions and complexities of global advocacy for women and specifically why certain dominant frameworks of intervention can hinder rather than advance women's rights.