She has a total of 38 years in career and technical education as a classroom teacher, campus administrator and university faculty.She also works with the University College at OSU as a faculty fellow working with students who are veterans, concurrently enrolled or transfer students.Her focus is recruitment, retention and mentoring of career and technical teachers.She has served as president of two national organizations; ACTER and NAITTE and is currently serving as secretary of the University Council for Workforce and Human Resource Education.