A little bit about me…

I’ve spent my entire career (almost 30 years!) working in the field of education. After earning my undergraduate degree at Georgetown University, I completed a Master’s in Education degree at Boston College, and began teaching high school English in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

In 2000, I returned to graduate school at Providence College to earn my school counseling license. After several years working as a high school counselor in Rhode Island, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I worked as an academic advisor at the University of Texas, Austin.

I relocated to Dallas in 2009, and began specializing in the college transition process. I created and oversaw two different college transition programs for high school seniors (in Dallas and Houston). I designed and taught an online class to prepare high school students for college, ran seminars on topics ranging from money management to study skills to campus resources, and attended the Post-Secondary Success Institute at Harvard University in 2019.

Currently I work at an Oklahoma university as an academic advisor in the Office of First Year Success, working exclusively with freshmen. I am also a certified therapy dog handler, and volunteer with my English mastiff Agatha, providing pet therapy to college students.

I am married and the mother to 3 young adults who all successfully transitioned to college; two have earned their bachelor’s degrees from Texas A&M University and Oklahoma State University, and my youngest is a junior at the University of Oklahoma.