Before becoming a teacher, she earned a B.S. in electrical engineering at Boston University and worked as an engineer on technical projects including an implantable artificial heart, satellite communication systems, and airfare search engines. She then earned a M.Ed. from UMASS Boston through the Boston Teacher Residency program, and has been teaching physics and math in Boston and Cambridge since 2010. In addition to reading about science, she enjoys swimming, riding her bicycle, and trying not to kill her garden.