[3][4] She worked toward a degree in physics and astronomy, and completed an undergraduate dissertation on MgII emission systems.

She moved to the University of Arizona for graduate studies, where she worked on X-ray diagnostics of active galactic nuclei under the supervision of George H.

[8][9] In June 2023, she was chosen as the senior project scientist for the JWST, succeeding John C.

[10] Rigby is responsible for TEMPLATES (Targeting Extremely Magnified Panchromatic Lensed Arcs and Their Extended Star Formation), a project that looks to use high signal-to-noise NIRSpec and mid-infrared integral field units (IFU) spectroscopy to image 4 gravitationally lensed galaxies.

[11] Rigby was a founding member of the American Astronomical Society Committee for Sexual-Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy.