She earned her Ph.D. in 2014 from New York University specializing in the U.S. Congress and political communication. Her research on congressional communications has been published in Legislative Studies Quarterly and Gender Studies as well as in popular outlets including the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Hill. She maintains the only digital database of all official Congress-to-constituent e-newsletters at www.dcinbox.com and https://dcinbox.herokuapp.com/.