Her experience includes a published study on the use of the internet for survey research. She also received grant money while a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire from two sources for a project that studied the efficacy of community policing techniques in rural New Hampshire. In addition, she conducted field research in two rural counties in the state of Georgia evaluating the implementation and impact of Georgia’s welfare reform policies. As a primary research analyst she also compiled and analyzed data for a “best practices” website to be used by a variety of stakeholders seeking to enact and implement welfare reform programs. She was also part of a team at California State University analyzing data that tracked a variety of student outcomes such as retention and graduation rates.