She is also an SRJC alumna; graduating from the ADN program in 1982. Mary went on to have a rich and varied career as a Registered Nurse working locally at Santa Rosa Memorial and Sutter Hospitals, two home care agencies, and later traveling to India and Nepal, where she worked for an International Health Organization. After returning to California, Mary completed the Nurse Practitioner/Master’s program at University of California, San Francisco, in 2002.