She has practiced full scope midwifery for greater than sixteen years and spent several years as an adjunct professor in both the Graduate Midwifery and Graduate Women’s Health programs at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her formal teaching, as well as the many years of precepting midwifery students in the clinical setting, has helped her realize the importance of her role in educating midwives who will, in the future, promote excellence and leadership in all areas of midwifery and women's health.