She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A., M.Phil. and PhD from Yale University. Her PhD dissertation focused on debates about unauthorized immigrants: ‘It’s just not Main Street anymore!’ Mapping Out the Boundaries of Belonging in a New Immigrant Gateway. In 2014, she co-authored Obama Power with Jeffrey C. Alexander. Her current research focuses on the immigrant rights and immigration control movements in the United States and how they mobilize through the Internet. Her latest book, The Boundaries of Belonging: Online Work of Immigration-Related Social Movement Organizations, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.