She teaches courses in curriculum foundations, social and cultural factors in education, and educational theory and policy. Her dissertation – The Primacy of the Ethical in a Cosmopolitan Education: Fukushima Daiichi and Other Global Risks – received the 2014 Outstanding Dissertation Award in Canadian Curriculum Studies. Prior to earning her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia and joining the faculty at Penn State Harrisburg, she worked as a high school English teacher and K-12 English department chair in her home state of Florida.