As a reporter for 11 years, she covered the police and criminal court beats, as well as general assignments. Disasters/crises include the Challenger explosion, two Delta crashes, the kidnapping and murder of a UT student by narcosatanicos in Matamoros, Mexico, numerous floods, fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, murders, suicides, car accidents. In the nonprofit sector, she has had to deal with client, volunteer and staff deaths and inappropriate behavior; layoffs, sales and shut downs of services, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires. So she has seen it and worked it from both sides and gets what works and what doesn’t.