She has worked with a variety of clients, providing a spectrum of nutritional care: from prenatal wellness to support in life-threatening acute illness. She received her BS in nutrition and dietetics from the University of Maryland in 1995, then completed her year-long internship at the University of Maryland Medical Center, an innovative teaching hospital. Over the next decade she provided medical nutrition therapy to patients at Bon Secours Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as Yale New Haven Hospital and Saint Raphael's Dialysis Center in New Haven Connecticut.