After receiving a degree as a Registered Nurse in 1971 she has worked in cardiac, intensive care, hospice, parish nursing, community health, health education, and bloodmobile nursing. Since the late 1970's she has felt a call to missionary work and has been on 10 short-term medical mission trips to Haiti, Romania, Mexico and Guatemala. She joined the staff of ASELSI in July 2010 after answering God's call for long-term missionary work. She works in the Father's Heart Clinic as a nurse/pharmacist serving the people of Chichicastenango and the surrounding area. She has also completed three months of intense Spanish language education in Xela.