She is teaching Spanish communication and culture courses and methods of teaching foreign language in the primary and secondary school. Previously, she was supervisor of foreign language education at the University of Kansas, an English lecturer at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and a Spanish instructor at Wichita State University. She also served as a graduate assistant at University of Kansas and and University of Arizona. She earned her bachelor's degree in Spanish education and her master's in Spanish at Wichita State University. She has completed all but her dissertation for a doctorate degree in foreign language education from the University of Kansas.