During her time at Yale, Yoder also became the associate curator of mammals at the Peabody Museum of Natural History.[3][4] In 2005, Yoder became a professor of biology in the Trinity College of Arts and Science at Duke University.[5] In 2006, she went on to become the director of the Duke Lemur Center, whose facility houses 18 different species of lemurs and over 250 specimens.[6] Yoder often cites the Lemur Center as the inspiration and advent of her career in the zoological and ecological sciences.[5][4] As the Center's director, Yoder seeks to strengthen already close ties with Duke's Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy.