She was a winner of the Allen Keller Memorial Young Artist Competition and the DePauw Concerto Competition and has performed as a featured soloist with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, the DePauw Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Talent Education Institute (Japan).  She has also performed with the Chicago Philharmonia, Orchestra Sinfonico del NewOperafestival di Roma, Dearborn Symphony Orchestra, Lansing Lyric Opera and the Chautauqua Music Festival, as well as in solo and chamber music performances in the U.S., Canada, Austria, Italy and Japan.  She is the recipient of a 2009 Chicago CAAP grant to record her debut CD featuring music by French composers.

She holds a Master of Music in Flute Performance from Michigan State University, where she studied with Richard Sherman, and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance from DePauw University, where she studied with Anne Reynolds.  She also received a Graduate Diploma in Suzuki Pedagogy at the Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan, where she studied with Toshio Takahashi.