She is a 2006 graduate of Towson University, in Towson, Maryland, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Law and American Civilization and Political Science; and is a 2009 graduate of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary, where she received her Juris Doctor. She was a member of the Public Service Fund and a Senior Articles Editor on the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. Her student note, Changing State Laws to Prohibit the Display of Hangman’s Nooses: Tightening the Knot Around the First Amendment?, 17 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 263 (2008), was the 2009 recipient of William & Mary’s Thomas Jefferson Prize.