Has been teaching and performing in the Tampa Bay area for over 16 years. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in voice and theater from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts, where she attended and assisted in numerous recitals, operas, jazz concerts, master classes, contests, musicals and contemporary theater. She studied piano with Dr. Paul Steward, the chair of the piano department. She was a member of Mu Phi Epsilon a community service organization for music majors and was a music camp counselor. She has performed in Operas such as Tosca and Carmen. Other perform