I graduated from Sacramento City College and practiced clinical dental hygiene in a private general dentistry practice for nineteen years before accepting a position at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at the University of California, Davis - teaching dental hygiene skills to veterinary students and post-doctoral residents. In 2011, I returned to "human" practice and currently teach clinical and didactic dental hygiene courses at Carrington College of California. A fan of lifelong learning, I earned a Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene from Northern Arizona Univerity in 2009 and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Colorado, Denver, in 2012.