I graduated from Wittenberg University in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in biology followed by 2 years at OSU college of Public Health and Medicine. Before returning to school to complete teacher certification at Muskingum University in 2008, I worked in hospitals and blood center laboratories. My teaching career began at Maysville High School in Ohio and then I worked at University High School in West Virginia. In 2018, I returned to Ohio and began teaching at Millersport.