I received my B.Sc. in Psychology from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1994, and my M.A. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Concordia University in 1997 and 2003, respectively. My graduate theses focused on the functional neuroanatomy of memory systems. From 2003 until 2007, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University and while there I was funded by the National Institute on Aging to study the neural and behavioral mechanisms mediating a lifelong enhancement in cognition with prenatal choline supplementation. I joined the Psychology Department at Colby College in August 2007 where for 18 years I pursued questions about the behavioral, neural, and physiological effects of choline supplementation or deficiency at different stages of life. In July 2025, I began working at the Provost and Dean of Faculty at Knox College and joined the Psychology Department there.