Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, my family eventually moved to Baltimore City, where I attended public school until 14 and became a Seton girl (Charles Street next to JHU before it merged with Keogh High School, 1978--we did cross country runs with the Hopkins boys, yeah!). I attended University of Maryland for a BA in English, Towson State University for an MS in Professional Writing, and then on to Morgan's Ph.D. in English and Language doctorate and Ed.D. in Education doctorate programs. I taught at various schools (high school on the reservation and overseas as well as enacting the bulk of my educational lectures and scholarship on community colleges' to universities' by reviewing and changing educational issues and policies until 2018); at this point, I was an assistant professor at Penn State University, where the doctors discovered cancer, and thus, I retired from scholarly life because of resultant chemotherapy complications (2019). I suppose although my heritage quest began prior to joining Daughters of the Revolution, my quest along with a love of history and community service serving veterans, education, and providing scholarships to youth, was fired by other ladies who have a passion for making the world better through family connections.

Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, my family eventually moved to Baltimore City, where I attended public school until 14 and became a Seton girl (Charles Street next to JHU before it merged with Keogh High School, 1978--we did cross country runs with the Hopkins boys, yeah!). I attended University of Maryland for a BA in English, Towson State University for an MS in Professional Writing, and then on to Morgan's Ph.D. in English and Language doctorate and Ed.D. in Education doctorate programs. I taught at various schools (high school on the reservation and overseas as well as enacting the bulk of my educational lectures and scholarship on community colleges' to universities' by reviewing and changing educational issues and policies until 2018); at this point, I was an assistant professor at Penn State University, where the doctors discovered cancer, and thus, I retired from scholarly life because of resultant chemotherapy complications (2019). I suppose although my heritage quest began prior to joining Daughters of the Revolution, my quest along with a love of history and community service serving veterans, education, and providing scholarships to youth, was fired by other ladies who have a passion for making the world better through family connections.