Her teachers were Ransom Wilson, Sue Ann Kahn, Harvey Sollberger (flute), David Gilbert and Arthur Weisberg (conducting), and Elias Tanenbaum, Ursula Mamlock and Henry Brant (composition).
That year she received a Fleck Fellowship Award at the Banff Center and was also invited as a master instructor in their Music Workshop Program.
She wrote a score for Detour Inc., a San Francisco–based startup that creates unique and innovative documentary tours all over the world.
In September 2017, Bouchard received a multiyear grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to "Research and Create".
Her project titled "Live Structures" will unfold over the next two years with collaborations and partnerships with François Houle, Philippe Pasquier at Metacreation in Vancouver, Lori Freedman and Sandeep Bhagwati at Matralab in Montreal and with Kyle Bruckmann in San Francisco.