She joined the faculty at Georgia in 2008 after earning her PhD at Emory University. She received her MBA from The University of Texas at Austin and her undergraduate degree in accounting from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. Prior to entering the doctoral program, she was a manager in the Deloitte Financial Advisory Services practice in Dallas, Texas. She was a member of the Business Valuation group and focused primarily on valuations of business entities, certain intangible assets, common and preferred stock, and other securities.