She has been teaching in the Federal prison system since 2008 and writes and publishes about trauma, violence and the carceral system. She is the provincial representative for the Violence & Society research cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association and is a regular guest on news media for stories related to gender-based violence. She is currently running a SSHRC-funded qualitative research project on transformative justice and intimate partner homicide and producing a podcast series about transformative approaches to family violence, sexual assault and child abuse.