She provides legal research and analysis for Sea Grant projects and her work often focuses on coastal land use and climate resiliency. She serves as editor of Water Log, a quarterly legal newsletter. She also teaches climate change law and energy law as an adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law. She holds a B.S. from the University of Southern Mississippi and both a J.D. and an LL.M. in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from Lewis & Clark Law School. She is a Mississippi native and grew up on the waters of the Mississippi Gulf coast.