I began my career as a teenaged Nursing Assistant in my community nursing home. That experience inspired me to seek my Diploma in Nursing from Tacoma General Hospital School of Nursing. I completed my BSN almost 10 years later at Seattle Pacific University. I have a Master in Nursing from University of Washington-Seattle with a focus on Nursing Education.

My 25 years of practice experience is varied. I have gone from med-surg and critical care to ER, then Ambulatory Care and a little bit of Labor and Delivery, to hospital discharge planning, Critical Pathway development, and most recently home health and hospice.

I have been at HCC in the Nursing Department for 6 years, 3 of them in the Coordinator position. I most enjoy seeing students discover the gifts they bring to nursing.

I enjoy sailing and any other activity that takes place in and around Puget Sound, which is, in case you didn't know it, the center of the universe.