She has spent a majority of her career in obesity treatment and prevention efforts. She currently serves as the public health specialist for WVU Extension's Family Nutrition Program and Director of the West Virginia SNAP-Ed program. Additionally, she serves as the food access chair for the WV Food and Farm Coalition. Her positions in these organizations allow her to develop outreach strategies that connect the interests of public health and nutrition to agriculture and the local foods movement. She has recently been involved in the development of mobile markets and school-based farmers market voucher programs in rural communities in West Virginia.