Her extension and adaptive research program focuses on the identification, epidemiology and management of important and emerging diseases of major vegetable crops in Pennsylvania and the Northeast region. She works closely industry stakeholder groups like the Pennsylvania Vegetable Grower Association and has presented at the Annual Pennsylvania Sustainable Agriculture meetings. Most recently, she agreed to serve a one year term on the Board of PCO. She received her B.S. in Horticulture and M.S. and Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from The Pennsylvania State University. She was a post-doc at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station with Cornell University working with diseases of vegetable crops and soil health for four years before returning to Penn State in June 2008. Steve Groff, Cover crop Coaching