She holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from University of California-Berkeley, and has held fellowship positions at Wellesley College’s Donald and Susan Newhouse Center for Humanities and Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. She is currently completing a manuscript Resonances of Chindon-ya: Sound, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Japan, which examines the intersection of affect, space, and sound through an ethnographic analysis of chindon-ya, a live advertisement musical practice on urban streets in Japan.