She joined the University of Calgary in 2006, after having been a member of the Political Science department at Acadia University for five years. Her research focuses on the impact of women in politics on public policy, gender quotas in comparative perspective, and women's substantive representation. She is currently a Fellow of the University of Calgary's Latin American Research Centre and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Policy Research. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Carleton University in 2001.