Nine years of experience as a special education teacher serving a population of students with intellectual disabilities, health impairments, autism spectrum and other developmental and behaviorial disorders from the ages of 3 - 5, and grades K - 4. Duties include analyzing data and diagnostic evaluations to develop and set goals for students, presenting recommendations at Admission, Review and Dismissal meetings, planning lessons, onboarding parents and students to online learning platforms, creating visuals for the classroom, systematically collecting data to inform instruction and coaching parents one on one and in small groups.

Seventeen years of diverse experience practicing family, criminal, estate planning and probate, real estate and municipal law. Experience included practicing law as a solo practitioner and employment as an associate attorney at Akins, Nowlin and Prewitt LLP and Camille Walker & Associates in Round Rock, Texas; Assistant Kerr County Attorney in Kerrville, Texas; Staff Attorney at Texas Rural Legal Aid, Inc. in Edinburg and San Antonio, Texas and City Attorney for Town of Anderson.