Her responsibilities include coordinating ASL 1-4 and the Masters of Teaching ASL Program which will begin in 2014. She has taught ASL and sign language interpreting courses for over 10 years in various post-secondary settings. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Bowling Green State University, a Master’s of Science in Secondary Education (MSSE) for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in Higher Education Administration from Purdue University.