[1] Born in England and raised in Connecticut, Kilby graduated with a BA Summa Cum Laude in Mathematics and Religious Studies from Yale University in 1986.
[15][16][17] She has been invited to give presentations to internationally established conferences, including the Thomistic Institute (Angelicum, Rome, in 2021),[18] the Karl Barth Society of North America (Princeton University, 2019),[19] and LEST XI, KU Leuven (2017).
[24] Her current project, co-led with Clare Carlisle (King's College London), is "Phenomenology of Theological: Modelling Enquiry and Poesis" (2022-2023).
It is part of Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology, an international initiative led by Prof. Judith Wolfe and funded by the Templeton Religion Trust.
She is also a member of the Theological Retreat Group for the Archbishop of Canterbury, and has served as a consultant to the Saint Vincent de Paul society.
[30].She is also known for her writings on two major Twentieth century Catholic theologians Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar.