With not quite one semester fulfilled, dropped out of Greenville College and moved to Chicago to find a job.
Attended elementary school in Pocahontas, Illinois and graduated high school in Greenville, Illinois.
The radio station she was always tuned into during the mid-'60s to early '70s was KXOK (630 AM) St. Louis, Mo and DJ, Bob Shannon.
Teaching influences: RJ Adams (student of Sanford Meisner and Charles E. Conrad).
Life member of The Actors Workshop, RJ Adams, Coach.
Theatre acting workshop under the direction of Producer/Director, Jorn Winther (January 2008)
Attending Wendy Girard's Method Acting and Improv Workshops (July 2009)
BookPal reader for Screen Actors Guild Foundation (January 2008)
Member of Palm Springs Chapter of Women in Film and TV (April 2007)
Veracity Film Academy Boot Camp; Orange County, CA (July 2010)
Film acting at The Actors Workshop under the direction of Actor/Producer, RJ Adams (March 1990)
Beginner-level course on television/film directing by Producer/Director, Jorn Winther (July 2008)
Currently working on a 3-act stage adaptation of Neil Simon's - "Come Blow Your Horn" - Jorn Winther Productions in Association with CSUSB Palm Desert Campus - Indian Wells Theater; Palm Desert, California (October 2008)