She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Anthropology, and teaches courses in the Africana and Women's and Gender Studies programs. She also directs the Crane West African Drum and Dance Ensemble. She joined the faculty at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam in fall 2012, after receiving her Ph.D. and M.A. in ethnomusicology from Brown University, and B.M. with High Honors in Music History and Literature from Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include the music of Africa, Ewe music, Ghanaian dance-drumming, music and gender, highlife, musics of the African diaspora, Afropop, performance studies, music pedagogy, and applied ethnomusicology.