Coming from a 20-year career in journalism, I first served at Oakdale as the communications director,

This experience honed my skills in research, organization, and communication, which I now apply to equipping and mobilizing our church's leaders, staff and congregants to fulfill our Wildly Important Goal.

I am passionate about learning and sharing knowledge. I am a recovering perfectionist and believe that "flawed is the new perfect." I have tons of ridiculous stories of God answering prayers because I have a ridiculous propensity for losing tons of things—repeatedly.

I married my husband, Jay, in 1986, and we have two wonderful adult sons, Davyd, an architect in Chicago, and Scott, an aerospace engineer in Manassas, VA. And we have two dogs and a cat.