She received her B.A. with Honors from Swarthmore College and her M.Arch. from Columbia University. More recently she has pursued a M.St. at Cambridge University in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment. After working with Gwathmey Siegel Architects in New York, she traveled to Paris on a Fulbright Fellowship and started the firm Poetic License. She has been a research fellow at the Beaux-Arts and has lectured on her work at numerous universities throughout the world. In Paris she coordinated the Department of Environmental Design at Parsons School of Design; additionally she has taught design studios at Ponts et Chaussées and Stanford University, where she is currently a Design Critic/Lecturer in Architecture. Her work includes numerous Christian mission projects in the developing world, often done in the context of academe where they serve as models for social entrepreneurship and spiritual outreach.