Recipient of a NEF Scholarship, graduated with a BSN from the University of Vermont in 1987. Since then she has worked as a RN primarily in pediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care, and home IV infusion care across the nation from Boston to Denver. She currently resides in Kennebunk, Maine where she raised and lives with her three beautiful children who are beginning their journeys into higher education. She decided to join them and is pursuing her life-long goal of obtaining a Masters Degree in Nursing as a Family Nurse Practitioner at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.