Chambers worked for a private corporation and then founded her own CPA business, which she ran for over a decade before returning to school to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Prior to coming to Stetson in 2014, she received the Texas Society of CPAs Outstanding Accounting Educator Award in 2012 and the Bobby Bizzell Southwestern Deans' 2006 Innovative Achievement Award, won the Texas A&M System Student Recognition Award for Teaching Excellence multiple times, won multiple awards for her service activities, published peer-reviewed articles extensively in journals, including the Journal of Economic Psychology, Tax Notes and The Tax Adviser and had her work cited by two different federal courts and in a report by the National Taxpayer Advocate of the IRS.