She received her M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College and her Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. She has taught Cross-Cultural Psychology for many years as an adjunct faculty member at The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology as well as at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. Her lifelong commitment has been in the areas of unlearning racism, sexism, classism and homophobia and to the learnings and experience of culture, justice, compassion, reconciliation and diversity.