She teaches applied trend research and analysis, design research, entrepreneurship, and fashion design development. She has an extensive interdisciplinary professional design and research portfolio working with clients in healthcare, beauty, personal care, travel, and consumer product sectors. She has facilitated design and trend workshops both nationally and internationally for design professionals as well as students in both K-12 and higher education. A trend research methodology that she co-developed with Emerita Professor Margaret Voelker-Ferrier was published in The Fashion Project: Exploring Critical Issues 7th Global Conference digital publication. Her work has been exhibited at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was also a Fulbright Awards alternate candidate in 2014.