Andrews attended Antioch College and conducted co-op research at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Hawaii.

After earning her Bachelor of Arts, she moved to Western Michigan University for her Master's degree where her first article was published in Etica et Animali.

[4] In 2015, Andrews was elected a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists from the Royal Society of Canada.

[5] The next year, she was appointed a Tier II York Research Chair in Animal Minds,[6] and received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant for her project, "Animals and Moral Practice.

[11] In 2024, Andrews, along with Jeff Sebo and Jonathan Birch, launched the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness.