Cameron was born and (mostly) raised in Montreal. She fell in love with the natural world at an early age, spending her days exploring the woods near her house, net and specimen jar in hand. Her education took a somewhat circuitous route; after high school, she attended the Liberal Arts programme at John Abbott but then decided to pursue an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies at McGill, as there was not enough focus on bugs in the arts. After earning her bachelor’s degree, she enrolled in a second undergraduate programme – this time in Honours Biology at Concordia, before completing her M.Sc. at McMaster University, where her research focused on heart development and growth in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, combining two of her great passions: entomology and aging. She returned to John Abbott to teach in 2019.

In her natural habitat, Cameron may be found nerding out over science fiction and boardgames, thinking up bad puns, and enjoying the outdoors (when its not covered in snow).