She received undergraduate degrees in Physics and Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving to Stanford University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Physics for work in Steve Block’s laboratory developing new single-molecule instrumentation and assays. For her postdoctoral research, she joined Joe DeRisi’s laboratory at UCSF, where she developed and applied new microfluidic tools for understanding transcription factor target specificity. In 2014, she launched her independent laboratory at Stanford University, where she and her team focus on developing new microfluidic technologies for high-throughput biophysical characterization of molecular interactions. She is the recipient of a Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship, a McCormick and Gabilan Fellowship, and a Pathway to Independence Award from the NIH.