Her dissertation focused on studying the impact of training methods on school-based mental health clinicians’ knowledge of, attitudes toward, and use of evidence-based interventions. Her research and clinical work has focused on improving access to and quality of mental health care for underserved children and families. In her role at the Center for School Mental Health, she provides training, technical assistance, and evaluation supports to mental health agencies, schools, districts, and behavioral health systems at local, state, and national levels. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and has worked as a school-based mental health clinician, and now supervisor, in numerous Baltimore City Public Schools. She received her Ph.D. in child-clinical/community psychology.