Her research investigates how technologies mediate interpersonal relationships, often with people who are blind. Her recent and ongoing studies explore how technology can engender safety as people with disabilities encounter law enforcement at protests, as blind parents care for their children at home, and as transgender people navigate violence in online and offline spaces. Common threads across her work include agency, empowerment, disability, gender, social justice, intimacy, interdependence, personal safety, and ethics in design research. Her research has been recognized with best paper awards at CHI and DIS. She is currently serving as a Papers AC for CHI and DIS 2019, as well as the Diversity and Inclusion chair for DIS and SIGCSE 2019. She received her BS and PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.