Bio

Ever since I can remember, I have wanted to play the guitar. It wasn't until I was in grade school when my grandmother took me to prayer meeting though, that I became passionate about it. I walked out of there thinking, "I want to do that! I want make people feel the way that they made me feel." I started playing at my parish shortly thereafter and haven't stopped yet!

In the mean time though, I went to college and got a degree in Respiratory Therapy. I worked my way up to be an assistant department head while in graduate school. When I earned my graduate degree in Community Health Administration I moved over to the Education Department. I had also started my own consulting business. I did a lot of public speaking in those days. Things were going really well in my career, but I wasn't happy. I felt like God was getting me ready for something bigger. . . something with youth. So I did what any good Catholic would do: I prayed for guidance.

When I saw the ad in our parish bulletin for a youth minister, I knew that was it! To shorten this story a little bit, I got the job and then the music and the ministry just started to roll into each other. I started playing at deanery events, then diocesan, regional and eventually national.

I guess if you have read this far, you might want to know what kinds of BIG things or accomplishments I may have to my credit. Well, alone, I actually don't have any, but when God has been in the driver's seat I have been a member of the award-winning Catholic Artists for Relief, I was the only female American musician to lead catechetical sessions and perform at World Youth Day 2005 (Cologne) and 2011 (Madrid), I had a song that I had written be nominated for Christian Song of the Year by a national web-based Company and was a semifinalist in the National Christian Talent Search Competition 2002.

I have been performing and/or presenting at NFCYM conferences for the past 11 years. I have worked with parishes and dioceses all over the United States, but when I am not doing that, I still work at my parish and spend as much time as possible with my husband and our two children, which goes to show that "with God all things are possible!"