She received her B.S. in Chemistry from Colorado State University in 2003, and she was an NSF-IGERT fellow while studying towards an M.S. received in 2007 and Ph.D. in 2008 in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. She then conducted studies as the T. Chen Fong Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Imaging from 2009-2012 in radiology and engineering at the University of Calgary.