She received her B.S. from Marquette University, M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and was a Davies Fellow of the National Research Council with a dual appointment at the United States Military Academy and the Army Research Lab. Her research interests are in algebra and combinatorics, particularly as these subjects relate to the representation theory of Lie algebras. In 2018, she was selected as the Outstanding Mentor of the Year by the Davies Center at Williams College and she was one of 50 women featured in the book “Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics."