She and her collaborators, including undergraduate researchers, examine the role of steroid hormones on repair of the nervous system following traumatic brain injury (TBI). She received her Ph.D. in Biology from Georgia State University in 2008, where she studied sex differences in neuronal development. She then continued this research as a post-doc at Lehigh University where she also began to examine the role of steroid hormones following TBI, until starting at Vassar College in 2011. This is her second year with Exploring Transfer.