Before teaching, she consulted on international tax and trade matters for multinational corporations and also served as the Senior Law Clerk to Judge Thomas J. Aquilino at the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York City. She completed her primary law degree at the University of Washington School of Law, holds an LL.M. from The University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland, and is a candidate for the Doctor of Juridical Science, Taxation degree at the University of Florida. During her legal studies at the University of Washington, she served as the Comparative Federalism Program Fellow to the Institut d’ Etudes européennes at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and was a stagiaire at Van Bael & Bellis, an EU competition, trade and regulatory law firm. She teaches and writes in the areas of federal taxation, comparative international taxation, and international trade law.