Early Career and Involvement At Gallaudet University
After graduating from Iowa, she worked for Northeastern University before coming to Gallaudet as chair of Sign Communication. Her next move was to Hawaii where she established an Interpreter Training Program and served for five years as the director of the Hawaii Center for the Deaf and the Blind. In 1995 she returned to Gallaudet to become the vice president for the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. In 2000, she was named provost of the University by President I. King Jordan, who appointed her without consulting the faculty, a move which Jordan called "a terrible mistake".
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