She graduated summa cum laude from New York University in May 2009 as a John W. Withers Memorial Award recipient and Presidential Scholar. She earned her master’s degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, where she received Chicago’s Association for Women Journalists 2010 award for outstanding young female journalist. Her multimedia work has been published by CNN, TIME, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Salon, Global Post, Christian Science Monitor, and Huffington Post among others.