Colleen received her J.D. from the Duke University School of Law. While in law school, she served as Articles Editor for the Duke Forum for Law & Social Change and worked at the National Health Law Program as a legal intern. Prior to law school, Colleen received a B.S. from Arizona State University – the Barrett Honors College, where she studied psychology and global health and wrote her honors thesis on the role of community health workers in a local Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) supplemental nutrition program.