A published scholar and conference speaker, she is the lead editor of the books MindShift: Catalyzing Change in Christian Education (forthcoming 2019) and PIVOT: New Directions for Christian Education (2017), as well as co-author of Bring It to Life: Christian Education and the Transformative Power of Service-Learning (2018). She is also the editor of the ACSI blog and host for the podcast Moving Forward in Christian Education. 

Prior to joining ACSI in 2015, she served as a school administrator at Smithtown Christian School in New York, a graduate professor in the School of Education at Long Island University, and an educational researcher with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, D.C.

Swaner holds an Ed.D. in Organization and Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University, an M.S. in Counseling from Long Island University, and a B.A. in English from Binghamton University.