Prof. Wright did her graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, working in a near infrared instrumentation laboratory on cameras and spectrographs for the W.M. Keck 10 m telescope. She then did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the faculty at the University of Toronto in 2012. She specializes in using innovative astronomical instruments on large ground based telescopes to study galaxies in the distant universe. She is the project scientist for IRIS, the first light camera and spectrograph for the Thirty Meter Telescope.