After graduating from Swarthmore College in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in economics, Meredith worked as a paralegal in a legal aid clinic and then as a high school math teacher in North Philadelphia. She then further pursued her love of math in graduate school at Temple, completing a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2012 under Yury Grabovsky. From 2012 - 2014 she was a member of the math teaching faculty at Harvard University. After taking a year off when her twins were born, she joined Temple's math teaching faculty in 2015. Her primary interests are in math education, especially teacher education.