 In 2004 she won the Theodore Front Prize for her Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, one of the "Search for New Music awards" presented by The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM).She is currently an Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California at the Thornton School of Music.She is also the Assistant Director of Undergraduate music theory at USC, on the advisory board of Jacaranda Music, an associate director of The Industry, a pre-concert lecturer at the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra, and an artist with Catalysis Projects.