[3] Upon completing her formal education, Herd accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs from 2004 to 2005.
[8] She also published a study exposing a link between higher academic performance in high school and better health throughout life.
The GSS is the only full-probability, a personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in social characteristics and attitudes being conducted in the United States.
[13] In 2018, Herd and her husband Don Moynihan left UW-Madison to join the faculty at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.
[17] She also began investigating how to reduce administrative burdens in order to connect domestic violence survivors with critical support services.