Before her college education, she attended St. Pius X High School (Festus, Missouri), graduating in the Class of 2002.
While in high school, she was a member of the choir, singing at Mass and state competitions.
She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
In 2009, she made her debut at the Chicago Opera Theater as Kate Julian in Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave, and made her debut at the Met as one of the Bridesmaids in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
[2] She has since returned to the Met as the Sandman in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Wellgunde in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Ludmila in The Bartered Bride in three performances presented by The Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program in partnership with the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at the Juilliard School.