She received her B.A. from Drury University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. She recently received the Trevor Evans award from the MAA. for her article “A ‘Mod’ern Mathematical Adventure in Call of Duty: Black Ops” which appeared in Math Horizons. She was a Project NExT fellow (blue10!). Her research interests are in commutative algebra, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and statistics education. In her free time she enjoys walking her dog, gardening, and finding mathematics in unusual places.