Born in the U.S.A., where she graduated in Industrial Engineering from Oregon State University and worked as a Manufacturing Engineer for Tektronix, she relocated to Rome to study Theology. With a Bachelor’s degree and a Licentiate in Theology, she has been teaching Trinitarian Theology and Christology in the English section of the Advanced Institute of Religious Studies “Mater Ecclesiae” at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas “Angelicum” in Rome. At Sophia she teaches “Introduction to Theology” and collaborates with secreterial activities of the Department and the Institute. From 2008-2020, she coordinated activities of the Secretariat of the President of the Institute.