In 1989, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a fund-raiser for Sculpture Magazine. She moved to Arlington in 1992 and began a career in marketing communications. At the time of her death, she was the director of marketing for Configurator Products at Oracle Corporation. She enjoyed art, music and travel. During her illness, she researched and identified innovative conventional and alternative treatment options for herself and went to great lengths to make to make that knowledge available to other cancer patients.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Commonwealth Funeral Home.