She attended SUNY Plattsburgh and graduated in 2011 with honors. She started her nursing career at Albany Medical Center shortly after graduating college on the neuro progressive-care unit where she worked for 4 years before switching to an outpatient neurosurgery setting. She has been working with the functional neurosurgery team since 2015, focusing her efforts in the multidisciplinary pain and movement disorder clinics. She serves as the DBS & Pain coordinator.