I am an author, motivational speaker and life coach in the field of Alchemical Transformation. My doctorate is in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Santa Barbara area, home of the Joseph Campbell archives. I was an associate professor at The Art Institute in Santa Monica, California where I helped students, especially minority students, gain confidence and self-worth in their personal and academic lives. For over eighteen years, I was CEO and president of a successful Interior Design firm with billings of over one million dollars. For the majority of my adult life, I have worked on living my mantra, persistence is the catalyst that makes our dreams a reality, and am proud to say that despite huge roadblocks, I was the first person in my hometown to earn a doctoral degree. Like many minority women, my personal story is filled with incredible odds for living an abundant life-my mother died at my birth, I was raised in a poor and segregated community and physically abused as a young girl-I decided that I had the choice to transform these dispiriting and demoralizing experiences into positive opportunities by creating the story I wanted to live and not one written by others. My research into the world of Alchemy, has helped me transform my basest experiences into golden opportunities.

Doctorate, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2000
Director, Irwindale Educational Foundation 2000-2004
Director, San Gabriel Mtn. Regional Conservancy, 2000-present
Los Angeles Co. Volunteer of the Year Award 2004
Board Director, Foundation for Mythological Studies, 2008
Television Producer Certification 2008, RVTV So. Oregon.