[2] Following high school, Willet completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Calgary in 1997.
[4] While conducting her PhD research, she worked with an artist collective called BIOTEKNICA and completed a residency at SymbioticA in Australia.
[10] Willet used the funding from her Canada Research Chair appointment to create the Incubator Art Lab in downtown Windsor.
Her exhibition was images of her going through daily life in a bedazzled hazmat suit to "explore the shared experiences of fear and isolation under orders to stay at home.
"[12][13] Willet also received a Partnership Engage Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to conduct online workshops and creative presentations.