 She completed a clinical residency at the University of Washington, School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in 2004.She received an NIH post-doc award in the Psychology department at the University of Wisconsin during 2004 and 2006 and held a Visiting Scholar position in the Women's Studies department at the University of Wisconsin Madison between 2006 and 2008.She joined the faculty at UCSC in 2008.