[1][2][3][4] Her summer undergraduate research involved studying Yarrow's spiny lizard in the Cave Creek Canyon of the Chiricahua Mountains.

In 2018, McGee completed a Master's degree in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona, with a focus in wildlife conservation and management.

McGee was one of a team of female scientists who appeared in a response video, which portrayed a diverse group of women performing similar scientific tasks.

The project garnered worldwide media coverage, including a feature in National Geographic,[16] Scientific American,[17] and Forbes.

[20] As an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN Ambassador, McGee appears a statue in the #IfThenSheCan The Exhibit.