She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Haverford College and went on to receive her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Washington in 2005. She served as a Science Policy Fellow from 2008 to 2010 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2006 to 2008 at the University of Colorado’s Health Science Center.