She earned her Ph.D. in Reading Education at the University of Virginia in 2011. As director of the Reading Clinic (http://ced.ncsu.edu/extension/reading-clinic), she teaches the clinic courses in the New Literacies and Global Learning K-12 Reading sequence (http://ced.ncsu.edu/academics/departments/cice/new-literacies-and-global-learning/masters/nlgl-k-12-reading), coordinates services with local teachers and parents, and serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) of research related to clinical assessments and interventions.