I began my professional career in the communications industry as marketing and public relations director for the Community Youth Gang Services Project (CYGS) in Los Angeles, California.  CYGS was a nonprofit focused on stopping gang violence.  I also spent several years as a journalist.  I wrote for newspapers in California and Massachusetts including the Los Angeles Times, Metrowest Daily News and the Worcester Telegram and Gazette.  I also wrote for and was editor of a health magazine in California.
 
In 1985, after a difficult divorce, I was a single-parent with two sons and living in low-income housing.  So I started a cleaning service with two friends to earn extra money. My friends left the company after a few years.  Eventually the cleaning service grew to a $3.5 million company with 165 employees, servicing government and corporate clients in four states.   We earned many awards for business acumen and excellence, including the1993 Small Businessperson of the Year for Massachusetts from the U.S. Small Business Administration and an Award for Excellence by the Small Business Administration (2000).  After 17 years, I sold the company.

I have been a member of several Board of Directors including The Center for Women and Enterprise (CWE), the New England Minority Supplier Development Council now the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council (GNEMSDC), Wayside Youth and Family Support Network, and the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC).  I have also served as Director of the Central Massachusetts office of CWE.  CWE focuses on empowering women to become economically self sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship.

I have a BA and MA in journalism from California State University, Los Angeles and Northeastern University in Boston, MA, respectively. 

I Continue to Fulfill My Mission of Empowering Women

I teach business planning and visioning classes at CWE
I am a small business adviser
I am an inspirational speaker
I offer a writing course - "How to Get Writing that Book that Haunts You"
I am a freelance writer and editor
I am working on my first novel titled "Hot Flash"- it's a mystery

I have a love for writing and helping women who dare to enter the world of entrepreneurship - women who dare to act on realizing their dreams.