She came to MSU in 2010. She was born and raised in India where she did her undergraduate and graduate work in Economics. She moved to the United States in 2004 and did her M.A. in Communication Studies from Morehead State University in Kentucky and her Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Bowling Green State University. Her research primarily looks at how factors associated with cultural adaptation of immigrants and sojourners influence their communicative behaviors in intercultural and organizational contexts. Her work has been published in the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Journal of Communication and Religion, International Journal of Conflict Management, Communication Studies, and Mass Communication and Society.