She received her PhD from Stanford University and worked at UCLA as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research uses cutting-edge genetic tools to predict how animals will respond to climate change. In her work with the Bird Genoscape Project, she creates high-resolution maps of migratory routes and climate vulnerability in neotropical migrants, which can be used to inform conservation decisions for vulnerable populations. Her work on Yellow Warblers was recently published in Science and highlighted in news outlets including PBS, NPR, and Scientific American.