She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia and Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she completed her thesis with advisor Toshiko Mori, Neft Dashlari: Architecture, Oil and Urbanism in the Trans-Caspian Union. She was a 2011-2012 Fulbright Research Fellow based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Her research is entitled City of Water: Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Floods of Phnom Penh and can be found at www.cityofwater.wordpress.com. This work documents the relationships between water, architecture, and infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, records the architectural and urban conditions sustained by and subject to the city’s rivers, and describes the challenges faced by Phnom Penh as it rapidly urbanizes in a flood plain.