While Marts was a PhD student at Duke University, working in cell biology, she experienced serious sexual harassment.

[3][1] At Duke University, she was the co-chairperson of the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC), an organization that she helped to found.

[4][5] She spent 10 years in Washington, D.C., at the Society for Women’s Health Research, where she was the vice president for scientific affairs.

[3] In 2018 Marts shared an MIT Disobedience Award, given to individuals who fight sexual harassment, with BethAnn McLaughlin and Tarana Burke.

[6][7] In September 2019 she was appointed executive director of the Genetics Society of America.