She is chair of the Commission for Pathway to Excellence at ANCC and is a member of the Practice Commission at Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA). She is a past president of MNA and served on the ANA Board of Directors. She was a recipient of an Archibald Bush Foundation’s Leadership Fellowship, during which time she completed a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at Hamline University, researching the 1966 mass resignation of American registered nurses to achieve the ANA National Salary Goal.