She was trained as a singer in college where she sang for four years in the Augsburg choir, traveling to California, Colorado and Europe to perform in churches and at colleges. She began playing the guitar in high school and started writing songs right away. Her work is a reflection of what many of us experience on a daily basis as we struggle to understand and overcome the devastatingly large problems our society faces in these times of war, environmental destruction and instability. In her songs, she asks us to come to terms with our personal part in the unsustainable economy we participate in and to find happiness in true expression. Her urgent messages point to the need for honest action in order to transform our fossil fuel based economy into one based on mutual interest and shared need.