She is also co-Director for SHARE-NW: Solutions in Health Analytics for Rural Equity across the Northwest (http://www.nwcphp.org/research/projects/current/share-nw). She obtained a BS in Biological Anthropology and a BS, MS, and PhD in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She conducted her dissertation reserach at the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development through an intramural Graduate Partnership Program fellowship from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research. She completed National Library of Medicine Biomedical Informatics Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington School of Medicine where she focused on data visualizations for informatics tools.