She interested in the problem of political and philosophical evil, and most of her work is animated by a desire to help people recover their roots in reality and their orientation toward the divine.

Ford was born in Calgary and earned a Bachelor’s degree (Hons.) in Chinese history at the University of Calgary. From there she obtained a Master’s degree in International Affairs at the George Washington University, and worked on and off as a senior policy advisor for Canada’s foreign ministry for about ten years. Between the birth of her two children she earned another Master’s in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford.

She has worked, volunteered, and consulted extensively in the international human rights field, including by increasing access to anti-surveillance and censorship tools in Iran, China, Myanmar, and elsewhere. Ford has also written and co-produced two feature documentary films on the themes of religious and political persecution, censorship, forced labour, scapegoating, and mass persuasion under totalitarian regimes. A few of these topics recur in her most recent documentary, which focuses on her experience of ‘cancel culture’ following a catastrophic bid for political office in 2019.

In 2022 Ford founded Canada’s first tuition-free classical charter school, Calgary Classical Academy. The Academy now has 1,300 students across three campuses in two cities, with thousands more students on the waitlist.