She is also a research scientist in the Division of Behavioral Medicine at New York State Psychiatric Institute, a Senior Sackler Scientist at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and codirector of the Sackler Parent Infant Project at the Sackler Institute of Columbia University. She holds an MA from the New School for Social Research and a PhD from City University of New York. She completed a psychobiological sciences fellowship at Columbia University. Her research focuses on perinatal psychology and psychiatry, psychobiological development, and developmental neuroscience.