She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1998 and Master of Science in Nursing in 2001 from the University of Pennsylvania. She studied abroad in Oxford, England, for a semester while she was an undergraduate. She is member of Sigma Theta Tau International, the honor society of nursing. She has worked at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia and Wolfe-Simon Medical Associates in Cherry Hill, NJ. She has worked at Temple Student Health for over 10 years now. She is board certified by the American Nurse Credentialing Center.