While at AFB, she launched the Public Policy and Research Institute, which conducts mixed-methods research that informs AFB’s policy advocacy. She provides strategic leadership for the policy and research functions across the key focus areas of education, employment, technology, and transportation.
Prior to AFB, she was the Disability & Inclusion Advisor at the Corporation for National and Community Service, where she provided thousands of nonprofit grantee organizations with inclusion guidance and resources. She is also a former Skadden Foundation Fellow for Disability Rights Advocates and the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where she served as an Editor-in-Chief of Recent Developments for the UCLA Women’s Law Journal. In 2023, she was appointed by President Joe Biden to the U.S. Access Board.
