She teaches English as a Second Language and Religious Studies as well as courses in the Humanities and Global Affairs. Her dissertation research focuses on debt and mass incarceration, for-profit justice, and predatory policing's connection to the historic poorhouse/workhouse system. Her research interests intersect the fields of Critical Race and Prison Studies, using tools in the data sciences. She earned an M.A. in Religion (Islamic Studies) from the University of Wales, Trinity St. David in the U.K. and an M.S. degree in Education (TESOL) from Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. Her undergraduate studies were at Sarah Lawrence College (Film, Public Policy) in Bronxville, New York. She has previously worked with the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. and has also taught in the New York City Public School System.