Cori began her career in public health, working in a clinical setting to provide a wide variety of family planning services. In 2005, she began teaching a family based class to facilitate family communication about sexuality. In 2013 and again in 2017, she received the Daisy Award, a nationwide award program that recognized her excellence in nursing while working on an inpatient medical unit at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Cori has taught throughout her career, volunteering in classrooms throughout middle and high schools as a guest speaker on a variety of sexual health topics. In addition, Cori has received special training to conduct sexual assault evidentiary exams for rape victims that come to the hospital emergency room.