With almost 20 years as an educator in Fresno Unified School District, I have taught students from grades kindergarten through twelfth grade in the general education classroom, resource specialist program, special day class—learning disabled students and emotionally disturbed students as well—and as a special education case manager at the high school level. My diverse abilities and knowledge of primary and secondary education gives me a unique vantage point from which to view my students’ progression to post-secondary education.

As a graduate of the University of California at Irvine, I went on to earn multiple teaching credentials at California State University, Fresno. I furthered my knowledgebase of emotional disturbance in teens by earning a master’s degree in counseling psychology at National University and am currently “racing to the top”  with my knowledge of organizational psychology by studying organization development at the California School of Professional Psychology; I am a candidate to graduate with my Psy.D. in December, 2012.