Edith serves as the Dean of Nursing at the Richmond, VA campus. She has been a Registered Nurse for thirty-five years, practicing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Maternal-Child, Cardiac and Medical-Surgical patient care settings.

She started teaching part-time as a clinical instructor in 2006, transitioned to a full-time academic and clinical nurse educator in 2009, and served as the Division Director of Nursing and Allied Health from 2013 through 2022 in the Connecticut Community College System.

In 2019, she earned an EdD in Nursing Education from Southern Connecticut State University with a research focus on the new graduate nurse’s transition to practice. In 2009, Edith earned an MSN from the University of Hartford, a BSN from Central Connecticut State University in 2001, and a Diploma in Nursing from the Saint Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Connecticut in 1987. She recently earned the National League for Nursing’s Certification as a Nurse Educator (CNE) in April 2021.