She teaches United States history and African history online. She received her Ph.D. in History from Loyola University of Chicago in 2008. She received her Master’s Degree in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991. Her dissertation was titled, The Excluded and the Included: Chicago, White Supremacy and the Clubwomen’s movement, 1873-1915. She is the author of several publications in print and online including “White Supremacy” in the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (2013).