Fountain holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Women's Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from New York's The New School. In school, her emphasis was on studying issues of identity-based violence.Queery podcast, 4:27. She did field work studying the Presbyterian Church (USA) in order to better understand the intersection of the politics of queerness and religion.Queery podcast, 4:55.
