Feyerick grew up in New Jersey and moved to Manhattan to attend Barnard College of Columbia University where she graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and where she later received the Young Alumna Award.

Feyerick returned in 1990 and soon after moved to London and Norway where she worked for an independent news & video production company funded by Swedish media giant Millicom.

She returned to Manhattan and worked at Time, Inc as a Special Correspondent for Life magazine[3] covering the Los Angeles Riots, The American Family, and the 50th anniversary of D-Day.

During CNN's extensive coverage of the tragedy, Feyerick was on the investigative team breaking news about the hijackers and their US connections in New York, New Jersey, Boston and the Midwest.

Feyerick was on site in West Virginia at Alderson Federal Prison camp when Stewart arrived in the early morning hours of October 8 and when she left six months later on a freezing day in March 2005.

She visited rocker and NRA activist Ted Nugent[24] at his Spirit Wild Ranch; interviewed the head of the National Shooting Sports Foundation;[25] and experienced firearms[26] first hand from the perspective of a non-gun-owner.