[1] Growing up, she was uninterested in science as her classes at school primarily focused on memorization.
[1] She then worked with youth with disabilities, sang and played the piano, and spent a year travelling internationally.
[1] After graduation, she accepted a postdoctoral position, researching pre-eclampsia at BC Children's and Women's Hospital and the University of Nottingham.
[1] In 2015, along with Judy Illes, a neurology professor at UBC, Anderson resigned from the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame's selection committee to protest the lack of female nominees for the induction[4][5][6][7][8] and she worried about the message being sent to female students by this.
"[3] In 2016, Anderson was a nominee for the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards in the Education, Training & Development category.