Her interests in narrative, dialogic, rhetorical, semiotic, and critical theoretical frameworks connect her diverse research interests in gender and leadership, critical feminist studies of public relations, public relations history, and the rhetorical power of gender stereotypes and family values metaphors in political communication and national cultures. She holds both a Bachelor of General Studies (1991) and a Master of Arts in Women’s Studies (1993) from Simon Fraser University, and a PhD in History from York University [Toronto, Canada] (1998).