In the baccalaureate program, Tina teaches a course in Educational Methodology and Leadership. She is an alumnus of the University of Vermont, with an associate degree in Dental Hygiene, a bachelor’s degree in Health Education, and a master’s degree in Educational Leadership. In 1996, after thirteen years of clinical dental hygiene practice in Vermont and Massachusetts, Tina became involved in dental hygiene education as a clinical instructor for first-year dental hygiene students, and eventually accepted a full-time teaching position after completing her Master’s degree in 2002. Tina has worked in the profession of dental hygiene for thirty-two years.