Lily earned her B.S. in Biology from Caltech, where she researched membrane protein biogenesis in Dr. Bil Clemons’ lab. She then studied for an MPhil in Dr. Lori Passmore’s lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, researching targeting and specificity of RNA decay. She is currently a PhD student in the Molecular Biology graduate program at Princeton, supported by the Centennial and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.