Avery received her bachelor's degree in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Shortly after graduating, Avery moved to the D.C. area to serve as a 6th-grade science teacher with Teach for America, simultaneously earning her Master of Science in Education from Johns Hopkins University. After completing her Teach for America corps service, she moved to New York City to work with innovative healthcare technology startups, implementing technology to support value-based care and social determinants of health projects at scale across health systems and state health departments. She is now a didactic year Physician Assistant student at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.