Wight received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in art history.

[3][1] Prior to this appointment, she was senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California.

[3] She is also curator of ancient and Islamic glass at the museum.

[4] Prior to that she held the position of senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum's Getty Villa in Malibu, California.

[1] In 2017, President Barack Obama appointed Wight to an advisory post on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of State.