She has taught in inner-city schools for 30 years, teaching both art as well as other academic subjects. She spent the first two years as a Middle School teacher in Inglewood Unified School District, interned in elementary school at Los Angeles Unified School Districts Carson Street Elementary. The remaining twenty-eight years, were spent teaching in the specialized unit of the Juvenile detention centers of The Los Angeles Probation Department as a Juvenile Halls and Camps teacher of The Los Angeles County Office of Education, Juvenile Court Schools under the Division of Students Programs.