She earned a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Leadership from The Ohio State University, an MSW from Teacher’s College, Columbia University in New York and a B.S.Ed. from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She has worked as a middle school teacher, a school social worker, Dean of students and a high school principal. She has also served as a consultant for the Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) in the Atlanta Public Schools, where she focused on assisting school leaders and teachers in implementing small school reform model in select high schools. Her research interests include: women in school leadership; examining the ways that districts provide mentoring and support for early career administrators; and leadership and small school reform.