Current involvement includes:
- President, Historic Burke Foundation
- Coordinator of Annual Revolutionary War Days events for Historic Burke Foundation
- Executive Committee, History Museum of Burke County
- Board member, North Carolina School for the Deaf Foundation
- Board member, Overmountain Victory North Carolina State Trail – Friends
- Member, Overmountain Victory Trail Association
Past involvement includes:
- Vice Chair, Burke County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
- Member, State Employees Credit Union Advisory Board, Morganton, NC
- Member, Steering Committee, City of Morganton’s Mission 2030 Project
- Member, Mission 2030 Task Force on Retirement
- Member, Mission 2030 Task Force on Business and Industry
- Member, The Burke Alliance for Education Board
- Member, Burke County United Way Campaign Committee
- Chair, Region 13 Advisory Committee, State Employees Combined Campaign.
Interview featured in “North Carolina Journal for Women”, an on-line publication.
Interview featured in Women Talk About How to Get Men To Take You Seriously in Business and Life, a book authored by Linda Brakeall and published by Hawthorne Press in 2003.
Certified Presenter of the 4MAT Learning System.
Certified Reality Therapist.
Certified Presenter of Performax Training.
Past President, North Carolina Adult Education Association.
Co-Author of Paper on Funding Entitlement for a North Carolina Community College System Pre-Vocational Education Program that was presented at the Fourth International Conference on Higher Education at the University of Lancaster, England.
30 + years of group process facilitation experience.
Education
Ed.D. Adult and Community College Education, North Carolina State University. Doctoral dissertation examined learning style profiles of high school dropouts who enrolled in North Carolina’s community colleges.
M.Ed. Adult and Community College Education, North Carolina State University.
B.A. English and Political Science, Mars Hill College.
