• Mississippi College, Bachelor’s Degree in Music (Vocal Performance).
• Associate’s Degree in Nursing (RN).
• Colorado State University, Master’s Degree in Music Education with emphasis in Conducting.

Certified by Texas Education Agency in Vocal Music, K-12.

Certified by National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in Music, Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood.

• Have been invited to speak as a clinician at state chapter conferences for National Association for Music Educators in Idaho, Hawaii, Illinois, Arkansas, Iowa, Florida, Delaware, Louisiana, West Virginia, Maine, and Nevada, as well as at the Texas Music Educators Association convention.
• Have been interviewed three times for articles published in National Association for Music Educators journal, Teaching Music.
• Have judged auditions (by invitation only) for All-State Honor Choir for the Louisiana chapter of American Choral Directors’ Association.

I began teaching music at Hudson ISD in 2016.  I currently teach middle school choir and high school choir and piano class.

I began teaching vocal music full-time in 2001.  I have taught grades 2-12, as well as teaching private voice lessons to adults.  I have taught in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.

My husband, Dr. Chris Turner, is a voice professor in the music department at Stephen F. Austin University.  (Go Lumberjacks!)  We have two cats who seem to believe that we are their parents.