She serves as director of the Curie and Da Vinci Science Living Learning Community (LLC) and teaches the associated first-year experience (Successful Starts in Science) and second-year experience (Professional Leadership in Science) course series. Her innovative teaching practice is illustrated by the integration of six high impact educational practices into the LLC's programming and coursework. Blanc's teaching philosophy centers on two core principles: learn by doing and lead by example. She works with LLC students to co-create experiential learning opportunities in a peer-to-peer instructional model, and aims to give students individual and group flexibility in how they achieve course learning objectives. Blanc received her bachelor's and master's degrees from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, and her doctoral degree from Virginia Tech.