She coordinates the college’s Grief Outreach Initiative (GOI), a service learning opportunity for any student enrolled in the university, graduate or undergraduate, to provide one on one support and mentorship to a grieving P-12 student in the local school system. She is currently conducting research on graduate student grief, pedagogy related to grief in counselor education, and the experiences of LGBTQ+ undergraduate students on a hostile campus. She has presented and published on grieving children and adolescents for the past ten years. She has been a member of ADEC for ten years and currently serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors as well as a member of the Committee on Committees. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia as well as a National Certified Counselor.