2024 – Retired from Education
Professional Summary and Highlights:
2021 -2024 DMACC College & Career Transition Counselor
Served two high schools: ADM High School and Perry High School
- Survived the shooting at Perry High School
- Served on the Crisis Intervention Team immediately following the incident
- Implemented a school-wide paper ‘Love Chain’ in school colors, to encourage healing, deal with shock, encouragement and moving forward.
Abraham Lincoln High School
- AC Academy Counselor
- Raised nearly $30M in scholarships for ALHS students
- Delivered a diploma to a prison
- National Honor Society Coordinator
- Created, built and managed the College Bound Rails Wall
- Testing Coordinator
- Planned and presented the annual Class Night Awards Ceremony
Upper Iowa University
- Mentored and coached adult learners through a two-year senior business research project
- Member of the administrative team that helped a distance learning program grow by 49%
- Instructed 1000+ adult learners at the graduate level: Organizational Behavior, Research Design, Business Research, Motivational Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Theories of Personality