I am a 4th generation Real Estate Manager, the youngest and sole female member of a family of Real Estate investors/Attorneys and Managers. 

  I hold a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Economics with a land planning/management and accounting concentration and a Bachelor of Arts  in Spanish with a K-12 Teaching Certification. My college projects involved many real estate related projects including: trail development (rights of way acquisition and negotiation) of  a key segment of the original "Rails to Trails" network, which extends between the cities of St. Paul and Maplewood, Minnesota.  

   After graduating, I taught Spanish full time and worked summers for the National Park Service as a Naturalist/Ranger, staying involved with natural resource/land planning projects all the while. 

In the 1990s  I started working, either salaried or contracting,  with  Non-Profit organizations, all natural resource related, except two social justice groups, which required a Spanish speaker. My duties included, but were not limited to: accounting, financial planning, organization system development and management. 

    In 2001 I obtained my real estate license and delightfully discovered that selling real estate ideally combines my work skills,  life skills and education and wow! the number and diversity of people I can help . . .   By this time I was managing a number of properties and a household of five. I found that the marketing, pricing and negotiating aspects of real estate came naturally to me. I have even been able to speak Spanish to conduct a number of transactions.   

Now my grown children, who each launched at age 18,  are working AND going to college, majoring in business/public relations, communications and music production/business. Each of them have negotiated a number of rental leases on their own behalf and for their roommates, with minimal advice from Mom.  I couldn't be more delighted and proud of them!