She is noted for her strengths in building students' executive functioning skills. She has worked as a an academic coach helping student develop and builds strategies for learning. She has published the Skills & Strategies The Interview Workbook, a preparation guide for students applying to high schools and colleges. She is also the author of a novel, Pandu-the story of two lives from very different lands who become dangerously entangled in the South Pacific. She is the mother of 4 grown children and lives in Bethesda, MD with her husband. When not writing, she enjoys, reading, crafts, travel and spending time with her growing family.