She received her B.A. from Rutgers University, J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and M.A.from UM-Flint. She is the Director of the Buckham/GVRC Share Art Project and the immediate past President of the Referees Association of Michigan. She is a WGS core faculty member and also serves on the UM-Flint Women's Commission and the WEC Advisory Board. She is the co-author of Implementing a Gender-Based Arts Program for Juvenile Offenders, Anderson Press (2014) and is a frequent contributor to State and Local Bar Journals. She also serves as a member of the editorial board of the Michigan Family Law Journal, the Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal and the Referees Quarterly.