She received her master’s degree in video journalism from Northwestern University in 2013. While at Northwestern she received grants to cover stories all over the world including a Carnegie Foundation grant to spend a month embedded with physicists at CERN, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Journalism allowed her to work with many of her interests such as darkroom photography, web and graphic design, physics and aviation. She is currently working on her own documentary about Japanese-American internment camp survivors who served in the military during WWII.