[2] Meyer obtained her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Michigan, under the supervision of Michael Woodroofe.

[1] While a statistics professor at Colorado State University, Meyer declared that a study of salaries by CSU created salary goals for women faculty that were "substantially smaller than for men".

[4][5] This led CSU to start studying pay equity in 2015, which in turn led later that year to a quarter of female full professors receiving higher pay.

[6] She has also led faculty opposition to increases in athletic spending by the university.

[7] Meyer is the author of the textbook Probability and Mathematical Statistics: Theory, Applications, and Practice in R (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2019).