Her research explores crisis, issues, community, and identity. She cut her teeth on media analysis in Buffy fandom, which is also where she also learned to negotiate those complex, volatile social systems she was studying. She named her cat after a Buffyverse character, enjoys motorcycles and theatre and travel, defies her accident-prone nature by dancing and running on mountain trails, and in her spare time is plotting world domination. (Luckily for the world, she doesn’t really have any spare time.)