She received her Bachelor of Science in biology from Cedarville University in 2004 and her PhD in life science in 2010 from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville under the supervision of Dr. Brynn Voy. She was the recipient of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2012 to 2015. Lynch has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Genetics at North Carolina State University under the guidance of Dr. David Threadgill and continued that research focused on genetic susceptibility of colorectal cancer metastasis when the Threadgill laboratory relocated to Texas A&M in 2013. Lynch joined the faculty at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center in August 2016.