She is a pollinator ecologist with a focus on wild bees. Her research examines crop pollination and the factors that affect on-farm bee abundance and diversity. She conducted research in fruit orchards in the Midwest and sunflower fields in the Northern Great Plains before moving to Florida, where she is beginning her research on plant-pollinator interactions in berries and cucurbits. She received her BA in biology from Kalamazoo College, a MS in Entomology and Agroecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her spare time, she loves to grow vegetables and do anything that gets her outdoors.