She has an undergraduate from San Francisco State University, an M.A. degree from University of California, Berkeley and Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine. She has written a number of articles and essays on 19th Century African American Women. Her most current publication is " '...like hot lead to pour on the Americans: Sarah Parker Remond and the International Fight Against Slavery." in Stewart James & Kish Sklar, Sisterhood and Slavery: International Antislavery and Women's Rights (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).