In high school I was the first volunteer at the Lighthouse for the Blind in Queens, a recreational facility within walking distance of my house. I spent time after school facilitating craft programs, serving meals, coordinating sing alongs and teaching bowling at the Lighthouse. I had found my career. My goal going to college, as a sociology major, was to become a Director of a Lighthouse for the Blind.​ The chair of the sociology department did not encourage me to study sociology, suggesting psychology would prepare me better. Sensing that psychology was focused on “abnormal” behavior, I became an economics major knowing that I wanted to work in an organization when I graduated. An economics professor recognized my interests and suggested I continue my academic studies in urban planning and look for entry level work learning about computers because in the future economics work would be done using computers (“new” machines).

I didn't know it at the time, but that advice changed my life. I became a technology pioneer. My first job was at AT&T as a computer programming trainee. They only hired women who passed an aptitude test because they considered programmers entry level employees similar to telephone operators. I went on to work and grow at big companies continuously performing and learning. My career progressed from trainee to computer programmer at AT&T, to project manager at Lufthansa, to Director of Data Processing for American Airlines, to Director of Office Systems at American Express, and then to Vice President of Support Services for Prudential Securities.

​I was married before I graduated from college and six years later, my son was born. As the women's movement began I was a pioneer in a dual career family successfully juggling family, career and education. I earned an Executive MBA from Pace University. Many of my school projects involved the NY unit of Recording for the Blind, where I volunteered.

 
Later I was the first chairperson of the NY location, an operating unit of the national organization. The Education Committee of the Financial Women's Association of NY was an early professional network that I joined as an active member.

After twenty-five years in the corporate world, I co-founded SOLUTIONS for Information and Management Services Inc., a knowledge management consultancy. Later I became the NY affiliate for KNOCO, an international consultancy founded by members of the British Petroleum Knowledge Management Team. 
Simultaneously, I began teaching as an adjunct professor at Pace University in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. I loved helping young people develop skills to be successful in organizations. I needed a terminal degree to be a full time faculty member so earned an Ed.D from George Washington University, in Human and Organizational Studies. I studied organizational learning, collaborative technology and knowledge management, helping people see multiple perspectives. To apply the learning I became an active research member of The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). Eventually I served as co-chair of the Board of Trustees, through the transition from Founding SoL, a US based organization, to the international Global Association of SoL Communities (GASC).

 
With a South African colleague, I met through SoL, we co-founded ABC Connects, a US and South African non-profit that led school-based community learning initiatives in the US and South Africa.​
In March 2011, twin granddaughters were welcomed into the family and became central in my life. ​In 2015 I completed a seminary program and was ordained as an Interfaith, Interspiritual minister. My vow at ordination was “to take each encounter with another as an opportunity to help them grow. I am an “organic gardener” nurturing individuals, groups, organizations and communities playing many roles:  connector, educator, facilitator, entrepreneur, mentor, friend, sister,  minister, wife, mother, and Granny.

Since 2018 my personal and professional lives have changed dramatically. My family has relocated from NY to Irvine California. My professional life has reconnected me with higher education through the newly founded (2019) Doctorate in Organization Development and Change program at Bowling Green University. I am living my vow teaching and learning with working adults in a learning community as they become scholar practitioners/pracademics.