She was named the WVU College of Creative Art’s “Outstanding Teacher” in August 2014, West Virginia’s Outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year by the West Virginia chapter of the American String Teachers Association for both 2010 and 2009, and received the WVU School of Music’s Outstanding Teaching award in 2008. She received her bachelor of music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and her doctoral and master’s degrees in violin performance from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music. She has performed with the Houston Symphony, the Houston Grand Opera, the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida and the San Juan Symphony, as well as internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.