​BIOGRAPHY 

     ​I  come from a family of teachers. My mother was an elementary librarian, my grandfather had a long career as a professor of literature and my grandmother was a third-grade teacher. Teaching was not  what I had in mind as a career. I went to school to become and actor/singer. All of that changed when I had children. Life became busy, and dreams fell by the way side. 
     However, sometimes our dreams  morph into the very thing we have a gift for doing. After 20+ years of teaching, coaching, and leading in private, public and charter schools, I decided to step away from school work. The Nehemiah Project, formally The Equity Project, was born out of a desire to support low income schools and organizations that serve people in crisis. 
     In the past six years with the Nehemiah Project we have worked in a number  of schools and Districts, but have had a shift to supporting organization that truly serve the least of these, rescue missions, homeless populations, homeless youth, youth out of foster care jail and trafficked women.
     Why the name change? Nehemiah was tasked with rebuilding Jerusalem, I admire his tenacity and vision. His vision inspired me to do more. 
     This is my calling.