She completed a two year postdoc , in the Center for Language Sciences at the University of Rochester with Florian Jaeger and Michael Tanenhaus, but she also worked closely with Jeremy Jamieson (Psychology). She completed her PhD at the University of Memphis with Rick Dale in Cognitive Psychology, with a focus on dyadic interaction and communication. She also completed a M.A. at James Madison Unviersity in the Psychological Sciences program with Michael D. Hall, in which she focused primarily on the acoustic properties of emotional/affective speech during production and perception. Her B.A. was in general psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.