After graduating from Judson High School in 1995, I went on to earn my Associate of Applied Science in Graphic Arts from San Antonio College, followed by my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Stephen F. Austin State University. After working as a freelance illustrator, I started teaching Art at Somerset Jr High in 2005.

In 2018, I returned home to JISD, where my daughters were going to school, and started teaching Art/Drawing at Wagner High School.