Perrine is a graduate of the University of Hartford where she earned a BFA in Illustration, minored in Art History, and spent a semester abroad studying art in Cortona, Italy. She gained pre-program experience at the Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Perrine also spent time in Connecticut interning at both the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford and as a conservation assistant at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven before starting her graduate studies. During school Perrine interned at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She specializes in works of art on paper with an interest in paintings and frames. She is currently the head of the paper lab at Colonial Williamsburg.