Dr. Steele received her Bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature in English, French, Italian, and Greek from Wellesley College. She then worked as a youth director in the Episcopal Church and a teacher with Teach For America before attending medical school at Baylor College of Medicine. She completed a residency in general psychiatry, serving as a Chief Resident in her fourth year, and a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Her current role at MUSC is performing acute psychiatric assessments in the emergency department and seeing cadets for outpatient psychiatric care and crisis appointments as medical director of the Citadel Counseling Center.