She leads several community-based programs, including the Energizing Entrepreneurs (e2) Institute. She chairs EnGen, the mid-Michigan entrepreneurship education consortium, advises the MSU Entrepreneurship Association, and teaches Entrepreneurship. She has over twenty-five years of teaching experience in small business and retail horticulture, including professional development noncredit programs for small business owners. She started a campus business, Sparty's Flowers, managed and staffed by students, and started her own special events company, Florabundance. ‹ Arona Coulibaly