I was born and grew up in the greater Boston area. I earned an AB in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard and worked in the book publishing business in New York. I returned to Boston to attend Boston College Law School. Upon graduation, I clerked for Justice Ruth Abrams of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and was then an associate at the Boston law firm Palmer & Dodge where I worked first in litigation and then in labor and employment. I left the practice of law and, as a family, we moved to New Jersey and then to London, England. We returned to Toronto in 2002. Since then, I have been active on a number of volunteer Boards, including the Toronto Arts Foundation, the Soulpepper Theatre Company, and the Toronto Public Library Foundation, as well as the CAMH Foundation. My husband Victor and I have four children.