From 2011-2014, she was a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Allan Conney in the Department of Chemical Biology at Rutgers. Her interested in skin and inflammation drew her to Dr. Conney’s lab where she studied the role of obesity in UVB-induced skin cancer. From 2009-2011, she was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Richard Gallo in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego. In 2009, she received her Ph.D. in the lab of Dr. Richard Phipps at the University of Rochester as a student in Toxicology Training Program. In 2004, she received her B.S. from the University of Rochester where she majored in Neuroscience with a concentration in Psychology.