I am originally from Ohio and spent much of my childhood there, surrounded by a tight family and by “Holy Mother Church.”  Growing up, I loved reading biographies of strong, independent and intelligent women, such as Amelia Earhart, Maria Mitchell, Elizabeth Blackwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Clara Barton, who pioneered challenges to social and intellectual barriers they experienced as women.  As an adolescent, my spiritual life flowered when we moved to California, propelling me to leadership activities in Catholic youth groups all the way through high school and college.  Responding to my feminist calling, I received a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Southern Methodist University and an MS in Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University.  I recently retired, after working for 32 years as an engineer at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

I am drawn to the deeply spiritual and care about our natural world and we humans who live here.  I believe in working to find balance between the feminine/masculine, thinking/feeling, ebbing/flowing and other dualisms that we all encounter and that are characteristics of our lives.  I am seeking those places where the emotions of my heart can connect with the logical, analytic side of my brain in a conscious way.  I strive to promote an international and ecologically sensitive perspective and live in Denver with my husband Andy Hong and our dog Ellie.

I am interested in spirituality, creating art, local foods from the farmer’s market, learning about history, hiking in the mountains, exploring museums, reading, scrapbooking, cooking/baking from scratch and international travel.

I respectfully acknowledge that I live on the ancestral lands of the Hinono’eino’ (Arapaho) and Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) nations, according to the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, and that Colorado’s Front Range is home to the Nuciu (Ute) and many other Indigenous nations.