Her research examines sentencing law reform impacts on Indigenous women and the implications of restorative justice in the context of gender based violence. She is currently conducting an archival study of discipline in Canadian women’s prisons, and is a co-investigator on a national study looking at the lived experiences of incarceration. A key focus of her knowledge mobilization is to develop teaching and learning strategies that bring archival research into high school classrooms through online delivery. She is member of Canada’s Walls to Bridges collective that provides prison-based learning for incarcerated and non-incarcerated students. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa (BSc 1987, M.A Criminology 1994) and University of Manitoba (PhD, 2003).