in economics and French from the University of Oregon in 1984 and received her PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1990, sponsored by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship .
She is fluent in English, French and Spanish and conversational in Russian.
Previously, she served as president of the Western Finance Association.
[3] She has taught a variety of courses at the PhD, MBA, and undergraduate level.
[4] Whited is most known for her semi-annual summer school teaching structural estimation in corporate finance at the University of Pennsylvania funded by the Rodney L White Center for Financial Research.