Her Master of Science in Environment and Natural Resources Management degree and her Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology, were both obtained from Makerere University.

[5] Soon after writing her final examinations in botany and zoology at Makerere in 1996, she was recruited as a teaching assistant in the Faculty of Science at the same institution.

From 1998 until 2000, she served as lecturer and head of department, Uganda Fisheries Training Institute in Entebbe.

From 2010 until 2011, she served as the deputy dean, research and graduate studies, in the Faculty of Science, Makerere University.

From February 2011 until May 2014, she served as the dean of the School of Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences at Makerere University.