She received her doctoral degree from Rutgers University in 2013 and her BA from the University of Michigan in 2004. Her research interests include voter decision-making, political cognition, gender and politics, and race/ethnicity and politics. Her recent work, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, examines how voters learn about candidates during political campaigns, and the ways in which gender and race-based stereotypes influence voters’ search for information and evaluations of candidates. Her work has recently been published in Political Psychology and Political Behavior.