An arboriculture expert witness with more than 15 years of experience, this professional specializes in tree management, preservation, risk assessment, appraisal, and the evaluation of tree health and structural condition. More than 10 years of expert witness experience includes consultations, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony. Areas of expertise include tree health and vigor, hazard evaluation, pruning practices, pests and diseases, soil conditions, irrigation, effects of adjacent vegetation, protected-tree requirements, neighbor disputes, nursery-value appraisals, and construction activities affecting trees and critical root zones.

Professional credentials include Registered Consulting Arborist through the American Society of Consulting Arborists, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist, ISA Certified Arborist Urban Forest Professional, ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification, and ASCA Tree and Plant Appraiser Qualification. Educational attainment includes a Bachelor of Arts degree. She also serves as an international instructor for ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification and a national instructor for ASCA Tree and Plant Appraiser Qualification, with additional teaching experience in pruning, tree risk, ANSI standards, best management practices, tree law, and construction management for trees.

Extensive consulting work encompasses major tree management plans, hazard-risk assessments, damage and tree appraisals, tree preservation, arborist reports, tree inventories, nursery selection, pruning specifications, and construction management within critical root zones. Her technical background also includes recommendations concerning pests and diseases, soils, water management, tree selection, decay, root systems, biomechanics, drought, climate effects, and tree-failure risk. Continuing professional study has addressed appraisal methodology, construction impacts, urban forestry, tree law, failure analysis, ANSI standards, and arboricultural best management practices.

Professional leadership includes ownership of an arboricultural consulting practice and prior presidency and board service with the Western Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture. Additional involvement includes registered membership in the American Society of Consulting Arborists, life membership in the International Society of Arboriculture, and board service with the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers. Recognition includes the R.W. Harris Award of Educational Excellence and induction into the Green Industry Hall of Fame in 2024. This combination of field assessment, tree appraisal, risk evaluation, construction-related arboriculture, professional instruction, and expert testimony supports analysis of tree failures, damage claims, property disputes, maintenance practices, preservation issues, and other arboricultural matters in litigation.