She is also affiliated faculty with the Research on the Challenges of Acquiring Language and Literacy Initiative and the Adult Literacy Research Center at Georgia State University. Prior to joining the GSU faculty, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for the Science of Teaching and Learning at Arizona State University. She also completed an Institute of Education Sciences Pre-Doctoral Interdisciplinary Training (PIRT) Fellowship through the Florida Center for Reading Research in conjunction with her doctoral studies at Florida State University.