Coon received her B.A. in Linguistics-Anthropology from Reed College in May 2004.
Coon received her PhD from MIT in 2010 with a dissertation on ergativity in the Ch'ol language.
In 2011, she began collaborating with language teachers in the Mi’gmaq Listuguj community, in order to document, research, and develop teaching materials for Mi’gmaq, a First Nations language of Quebec.
