She is a former Director of Education Programming for one of the South Bay’s leading educational non-profit organizations, Sharefest. Also while at Sharefest, she led the development and management of academic and civic learning opportunities in both year-round and summer school programs. These programs focus upon high risk, low-income high school students in the Los Angeles area. Previous to her present teaching position at the University of Southern California (USC), Dr. Cain taught similar courses at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology.