I spent my early life in Arizona and California. While in school, I began working for the International Modeling and Talent Association, which allowed me to work in New York and Los Angeles. I went to school for English, Philosophy and Rhetoric at Arizona State University and then went to law school in Bloomington, Indiana. After practicing for a couple of years at a large law firm, I went back to school to get my PhD in Rhetoric in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I now live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with my spouse and two adopted chihuahua mix dogs. 

As an A.W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow I used digital tools to analyze legal discourse.​ My research attempts to explain how a laws and concepts are shaped through legal discourse. To do this, I traced the inception of privacy law in the US from Warren and Brandeis’ “The Right to Privacy” through to current legal conceptions of privacy. Using Docuscope, a text analysis tool developed at CMU, I am able to perform macro-level linguistic analyses of a large corpus of legal texts which allowed me to analyze every state and federal appellate and supreme court privacy law opinion. I chose this line of jurisprudence in part because it gets its history from a non-legal source in the form of a law review article, which is eventually cited to help establish a legal, constitutional right to privacy. My findings add to an understanding of how the law is shaped by discourse and provide a tool for non-legal experts to understand the role of prior text in contemporary decisions.