[1] After graduation, she worked in industry to repay her student loans[2] while concurrently pursuing a masters degree at Wayne State University.
[3] Berry was part of the Vanderbilt University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (IRL), and was advised by Kazuhiko Kawamura and Julie Adams.
[6] Berry also worked with a cross-department team of faculty at Rose-Hulman to establish a multidisciplinary robotics minor degree program,[7] for which she continues to serve as co-director.
Berry has been a guest speaker at several Women in Engineering outreach events,[8] and she has written articles for the New York Times[9] and ASEE Prism magazine[2] on her experiences as a professor from an underrepresented group.
[10] In 2020, Berry was named Indiana FIRST Game Changer,[11] One of 30 women in Robotics You need to Know about[12] and Reinvented Magazine Interview of the Year award on Purpose and Passion.