She has an MA in Film & Video from MICA & an MFA in Painting from University of New Mexico. She has taught film and media studies in the Electronic Media & Film Department at Towson University and art and art history at MICA, TU and Goucher College. Porkchop and the 28th St North Carolina Watermelons received the Special Jury Award at the Southern Colorado Film Festival in 2016. Her work has also screened with LA Cinefest, Short to the Point Film Fest, Bucharest, Romania, MoMA, LACDA, the Anthology Film Archives, the Puerto Madero Int'l Film Festival, The Cutting Room, Nottingham, UK, Experiments in Cinema, the Short Film Corner at Cannes Film Festival, the Short Film Festival of Los Angeles, the New York Short Film Festival, the Golden Gate Documentary & Fiction Festival, and the Festival du Cinema de Paris.