• Homeschool teacher of my five children

• Eleven year Minneapolis resident.

• Neighborhood Block Control Volunteer

• Public school graduate, married to North High Graduate.

• Swim Instructor for 15 years.

• Spent five months providing motherly care for 33 parentless children in El Salvador.

• Taught English to a refugee family from Zaire.

• Worked with children in the Native American Community of Nett Lake, MN.

• Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, Goshen College, Indiana, 1996.