Her scholarship focuses primarily on political rhetoric and rhetorics of reproduction, birth, and motherhood. Currently, she is focused on discourses of mental health and medicine within these contexts. She earned a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California in 2013. Her dissertation, titled Miracles of Birth and Action: Natality and the Rhetoric of Birth Advocacy, explores the complexities of women’s agency in contexts of childbirth through analyses of historical case studies. Her work also appears in Rhetoric & Public Affairs.