 She also created the citywide "Young Composers" program to teach inner city children how to write music through instrument building, improvisation, and graphic notation.She was composer-in-residence as part of the innovative Meet the Composer "New Residencies" with OperaDelaware, the Newark Symphony and the YWCA in Delaware (1994–97).During this residency, she wrote the critically acclaimed full-length opera, "Billy and Zelda", as well as created community partner programs for homeless women, and with students at a local elementary school.