She completed her Ph.D. in culture and values in education at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and her M.A. in social foundations of education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Gender, Bullying and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools (2009) and Gender and Sexual Diversity in Schools (2010), and her research has been published in many academic journals including Gender and Education, Journal of LGBT Youth, Computers and Education, The Clearing House, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, and Learning Landscapes.