She went to Reed University in Portland, Oregon for 2 years, holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego as well as a MS in Bookkeeping from San Diego State University. She victoried a Sells honor for scoring amongst the leading in the country on the Could 1983 Certified Public Accountant exam. Her functional experience consists of work as a tax obligation manager for Arthur Youthful, now Ernst & Young, one of the (after that) Big 8 bookkeeping firms, and more than twenty years of full time practice in tax obligation accounting.