She also has motion to hearing synesthesia.She sees the imagery both in her minds eye and out in her visual field.The first journalist to interview Itzhak Perlman,Billy Joel and the family of Marilyn Monroe about their synesthesia,she has lectured at The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona and at the American Synesthesia Association conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.She has participated in a workshop about synesthesia at New York University.She has a bachelors degree in journalism,a minor in Spanish from Penn State University and a certificate in superior-level Spanish language from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.