She earned a PhD in Applied Anthropology and a Master of Public Health from the University of South Florida in 2014. Her mixed methods dissertation focused on Medicaid-funded home birth in Florida. She holds a BS in Anthropology from Northwestern University, and a MSN with dual certification as a CNM and FNP from Vanderbilt University. Her nursing and midwifery practice have been in birth centers, family planning clinics, rural and federally qualified health centers, retail clinics and a cancer center, and include work in Appalachia, the Caribbean and West Africa. She believes strongly in training future nurses, and has been a clinical instructor in LPN, RN and MSN programs. Nursing and anthropology are naturally aligned to her and she is honored to serve as the CONAA Member At Large.