[1][2] She is curator and chair of the Division of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

[3][4] In addition, she is a principal investigator at the Institute for Comparative Genomics and a professor for the Richard Gilder Graduate School.

[5] Ware was a contributor to a major study of the phylogenomics of insect evolution,[8] and developed molecular phylogeny of hexapoda.

[2] Ware has said that she became interested in biology because her grandparents, Gwen and Harold Irons, in northern Canada encouraged her to collect snakes, insects, and frogs.

[2] Ware earned a Bachelor of Science in invertebrate zoology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 2001.

She reports that her time in Costa Rica inspired her to pursue research as a career, and it was also her first experience of working with other scientists of color.

She is helping to develop the Susan and Peter J. Solomon Family Insectarium at AMNH, which will explore the diversity and importance of insect orders.