She came to Fairfield University in the Fall of 2007. She has extensive experience working with children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). She worked as a teacher in the Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital. In addition, she worked at the Autism Evaluation Clinic as a psychometist and research assistant. In 2009 she was awarded an international fellowship at the Bundang Seoul National Hospital in Korea, where she collaborated with mental health professionals and offered a series of workshops to the public on ASD.