Beth is an economics research assistant professor and Senior Lecturer II at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas. She is a researcher on child labor and economics of human rights, including capital punishment, violence against women, seeking asylum, terrorism, child abuse, genocide, hate, and human trafficking.

Beth is an economics research assistant professor and Senior Lecturer II at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas. She is a researcher on child labor and economics of human rights, including capital punishment, violence against women, seeking asylum, terrorism, child abuse, genocide, hate, and human trafficking. 

She was principal investigator on a $1.187 million U.S. federal grant from the Department of Justice, used to build the SMU Human Trafficking Data Warehouse.  She is team lead on the SMU Human Trafficking Data Research (HTDR) Project with its goal to Make Human Trafficking Data Work.  She published The Economics of Human Rights textbook in 2018. 

Beth holds an MA and PhD in economics from Temple University, an MS in international business and trade from Grambling State University, and BBA from Sam Houston State University.  Her passion is assisting individuals and groups in taking the next step toward their world-changing goals.