She has extensive financial management and organizational planning experience in the non-prot health and human service sector. Her current research interest is in the area of new venture creation. LaPalombara spent several years in Italy on a Rome Prize Fellowship and as a Fulbright Fellow, studying Classical, Renaissance, and Baroque illusionistic painting, architecture, and sculpture, and teaching at the Rome Campus of Loyola University. He also has studied the relationships of art and audience in selected Italian plazas, parks, and churches. In his work, he creates spatial awareness through the perceptual contradictions allowed by manipulating horizon lines, vanishing points, ideal view points, light, and color.
Current work includes folding screens with painted landscapes.
He teaches sculpture and drawing. She has taught in public school systems for 19 years and has held positions as a teacher, team leader, Coordinator of Math and Language Arts Courses of Study Development, Assistant to the Principal, and Middle School Principal. She has developed a Middle School Science curriculum and a hands-on science curriculum for grades kindergarten through sixth grade. She has also presented workshops at the National Science Teachers Association and the National and Regional Middle School Association meetings on Individualizing Science Instruction and Teaching to Learning Styles. Her primary research area is Multicultural Education.