Her research and teaching areas are choral singing and well-being. She integrates these interests in her work with two community choirs: the Voices of Experience Senior Adult Chorus and the Oakdale Prison Community Choir. Her research projects include "A Case Study of an Adult Learning to Sing in a Senior Adult Choir"(three School of Music students collaborated with her on this project). "Harmony within the Walls: Perceptions of Worthiness and Competence in a Community Prison Choir,” a project