She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2011 with a dissertation titled "Discourse, Landscape, and Directional Reference in Ahtna.

"[3] Her work on Ahtna includes using Geographic information system to investigate the lexicalization of directionals, a subcategory of deixis, in language.

[9] Berez-Kroeker has given talks and workshops on reproducibility in the field of linguistics, including data sharing and citation.

[14] Berez-Kroeker received the Early Career Award in 2019 from the Linguistic Society of America for her work on the documentation of endangered languages.

In particular, the society recognized her for the "technological sophistication to her work, especially in the areas of language archiving, data processing, and visualization.