A recently retired KIRO TV reporter and anchor who has been involved with professional organizations (including the Seattle Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists), community organizations (including Achievement Rewards for College Scientists as member and public relations chair, AIDS Housing of Washington as a board member and chair of fund-raising committee, Junior League of Seattle as a Sustaining Member), and the University (as co-chair of the UW Graduate Diversity Fellows Dinner in 2004-05). She has mentored many aspiring young journalists.