[2][3] Harrison completed her PhD at the University of Western Ontario's Centre for Planetary Science and Space Exploration in 2016 while working under the direction of Gordon Osinski and Livio Tornabene.

[2] In 2008, Harrison became Assistant Staff Scientist at Malin Space Science Systems, after receiving a NASA scholarship.

[5] In 2011, Harrison was part of the team that won the NASA Group Achievement Award for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

[11] She worked as a research assistant in the Centre for Planetary Science & Exploration at the University of Western Ontario.

[8] That year she became a postdoctoral scholar and director of research of the NewSpace Initiative at Arizona State University.