 Lepselter began her editing career as an intern with editor Craig McKay on "Something Wild" (directed by Jonathan Demme-1986).She was an apprentice with editor Barry Malkin on Francis Ford Coppola's segment of "New York Stories" (1989).She was Thelma Schoonmaker's assistant editor on Martin Scorsese's adaptation of "The Age of Innocence" (1993), and was Robert M. Reitano's assistant on three films associated with Nora Ephron ("My Blue Heaven" (1990), "This is My Life" (1992), and "Mixed Nuts" (1994)).