I served as the director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics and as an assistant professor at Saint Louis University and have experience teaching online courses for several institutions of higher education. Nutrition education and multiple intelligence theory were focal areas of my doctoral research. I served as co-principal investigator on a USDA grant involving the implementation of school-gardening and nutrition education within inner-city schools. My career also includes serving as the Team Nutrition Project editor for the Colorado Department of Education, an outpatient dietitian at a hospital, and a community dietitian in a health department.