For 33+ years I served as a respiratory therapist and healthcare leader — sitting at the bedside of patients learning to breathe again, and at the boardroom table making sure the systems around them worked. That work taught me one truth: when people lose connection to clean air, clean food, and the land that God provided, the body, family, and community begin to fail in the same way.

I went back to school. I earned a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Government to learn the levers that move whole communities — zoning, funding, governance — and an MPA to put those levers into action. I added a Certified in Public Health credential, taught as an adjunct professor, and led pulmonary research. I serve as Board Chair for Breathe DC and stay active in community health work.

Then I became a Volunteer Certified Master Gardener through North Carolina, and the pieces finally fit together. Food is medicine. Land is ministry. Soil is policy. I went on to earn certification in Multi-Level AI so the tools I hand my clients today are as modern as the wisdom is ancient.

I founded Rooted in Growth to walk alongside churches, non-profits, and families ready to build something that lasts longer than a season — a sanctuary of abundance rooted in faith, science, and real strategy.