She received her B.A. from Mount Allison University in 2007, her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 2008, and her Ph.D from the University of Toronto in 2017. Prior to receiving her Ph.D, she worked as an economist at the Royal Bank of Canada. Her research focuses on the role of social interactions in perpetuating inequality by race and gender; she also does work on the economics of the family, and on immigration.