Her research focuses on finding “win-win” opportunities to conserve and restore biodiversity on private lands while also sustaining the livelihoods of landowners. Her current projects include evaluating the efficacy of conservation development as a land stewardship and conservation finance tool, planting “tree islands” on ranchland to create dispersal corridors for birds while also benefitting cattle, and studying the role of birds and bees in structuring plant communities through seed dispersal and pollination. Her work is generally interdisciplinary, seeking innovative ways to integrate conservation biology, finance and policy to solve important emerging environmental problems at the intersection of biodiversity and human well-being.