She received her bachelor’s degree in business administration and her masters in higher education administration from Baruch College and her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She did her post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University Health Services. Over the course of her career, she has worked in corporate, non-profit and higher education settings. She has particular clinical, research and teaching interests in the psychosocial adjustment and wellbeing of individuals of color in predominately white institutions as well as the anti-racism and white ally-ship discourses in these communities.