I am a first year Master’s of Dental Hygiene Education Student at Old Dominion University. I am born and raised in Morgan City, Louisiana. I completed my first undergraduate degree at Nicholls State University, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, with a major in Biology and a concentration in Pre-Medicine/Pre-Dentistry and a minor in Chemistry in 2005. I worked for two research institutions, including LSUHSC-New Orleans and Xavier University of Louisiana, for six years doing dental, breast cancer and cardiovascular research. I worked as an expanded functions dental auxiliary assistant for six years before attending East Tennessee State University for my second undergraduate degree in Dental Hygiene and graduating in 2021.

I currently work as a clinical dental hygienist for ABC Family Dentistry in Greeneville, Tennessee, and I would like to acquire a teaching position at an institute of higher learning teaching either part-time or full-time. In the short-term, I would like to start teaching part-time two days a week and continue to work clinically with my patients three days a week. In the long-term, I would like to work full-time as an instructor or lecturing educator. My research interests include the periodontal involvement of bacteria and the microbiome in the medically compromised patient and how the patient, the bacteria and the  tissues respond to laser bacterial reduction therapy.