Bachelors degree in Molecular Biology from Brigham Young University, completing a Masters degree in Instructional Design from Western Governors.

Thinks that DNA is about the most amazing thing ever! Loves Science and Intermediate School Students.

Hobbies include sewing, knitting, is a voracious reader and can't be trusted with a fiction book...she won't put it down until it is finished.  Enjoys cooking and sometimes makes ridiculously complicated things just for the fun of it.

Speaks Mandarin Chinese.

All 6 of her children (ranging from Kindergarten to Senior) are Lumen students this year. She has been teaching at Lumen since its opening.