A University of Texas at Austin graduate, she taught English/Language Arts, Reading, and Creative Writing in Round Rock Independent School District for 16 years before joining UTeach in 2013. She mentored more than a dozen student interns and student teachers in her 10 years as a cooperating teacher. She began delivering instruction to fellow teachers as a New Jersey Writing Project in Texas Trainer in 2001, served as a Curriculum Writer on Round Rock ISD’s High School Aligned Curriculum Committee from 2003-2013, and is a current consultant for the University of Texas’s Heart of Texas Writing Project.