She also served as Assistant Director of the Nature-based Early Childhood Education Certificate Program at Antioch University New England and taught the nature-based early childhood curriculum course. She has worked in the field of early childhood environmental education for 25 years at three different nature centers in the Midwest: as founding director of the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Preschool in Milwaukee, WI, Co-Director of the Early Childhood Outdoors Institute at the Fontenelle Nature Association in Omaha, NE, and as an early childhood environmental educator at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes in Cleveland, OH. She has spoken and published nationally and internationally about connecting young children to nature.