Before completing a Ph.D. in science education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto, she earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics and an M.S. in physics. She was a national postdoctoral fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Her work is currently supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER grant from the Discovery Research K-12 Program and an NSF Gender grant, and has been featured in Science Magazine, the American Physical Society News, and Scientific American.