She teaches undergraduate and graduate psychology courses. Her research focuses on issues related to testing, such as whether the assessment tools people use work as well outside of the lab as they do in well-controlled and structured environments. She also is interested in the role that the evaluators, such as psychologists, play in forensic evaluations. She is a recent graduate of Sam Houston State University, where she earned both her doctorate and master’s. She originally hails from Birmingham, Ala., where she met her husband, Brent.