As of 2004 she was a schoolteacher and began her teaching career in a small, rural district near Charlottesville, Virginia where she taught in ALPHA, an interdisciplinary, alternative program for at-risk high school students.
Trained as high school English teacher.
As of 2008 she had moved back to Los Angeles and she took a position as ninth grade team leader at Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale, California.
Own a boutique travel company and managed a San Francisco cafe [April 2020].