Obaze earned her BA from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna Nigeria, and her MBA (strategic management and marketing) and PhD degrees from the University of North Texas, Denton Texas. Her research interests include service systems, complexities and marketing theories, operations and supply chain management, logistics systems, and humanitarian logistics and supply chain management. She has published in Transportation Journal. She is a discipline peer reviewer for the Journal of Business Research and European Journal of Marketing, and is an active member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Production and Operations Management (POMS), South West Decision Sciences Institute (SWDSI), Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators (ACME).