She received her M.A and Ph.D. at the Political Science Department as well as her J.D. from the Law School. She was a Comparative Law and Social Studies (CLASS) and Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) fellow, a Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies graduate student associate, and a graduate student instructor. Her research delves into how hierarchical power dynamics shape social movements, focusing on the formation of grassroots, intersectional coalitions across the LGBTQ, labor, and immigrant rights movements. She specializes in American politics, public law, and political theory, with an emphasis on critical race and critical queer studies, feminist theory, intersectionality, social movements, and interest groups.