•The University of Toledo, B.A.(Magna cum Laude) and M.L.S.
•Employed as an Business Services Officer with The University of Toledo and writer/editor for a web design company.
•Board member of the Toledo Children’s Hospital’s Cullen Center
•Member of the Lucas County Child Abuse Task Force
•Married to Fred and the mother of four grown children, Patrick, Amy, Tod and Eric and the grandmother to two grandsons, Zachary and Blake.
•Author of the nonfiction book The Gift of Hurt
•Nationally published freelance writer
•Board member of Prevent Child Abuse Ohio