Her role as an AOC liaison is to work closely with local public advisory groups to seek funding and implement projects for water quality protection, monitoring, and restoration. As a liaison, she helps implement the MDEQ’s statewide criteria for determining restoration of water quality within AOCs. In addition, she represents the State of Michigan on a bi-national workgroup to manage Lake Superior and on a multi-jurisdictional workgroup to manage Lake Michigan. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, listening to music, exercising, and watching The Food Network.