PRESENT

• Farmer, Ayshire Farm, Upperville, Virginia
• Proprietor, Home Farm Store, Middleburg, Virginia
• Proprietor, Hunter's Head Tavern, Upperville, Virginia
• Founder, Virginia Organic Producers' and Consumers' Assoc.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• President, Leonard X. Bosack and Bette M. Kruger Foundation
• Founder of the Women in Mathematical Sciences Initiative, Shenandoah University
• Chairman of Trustees, Chawton House Library and the Centre for the
  Study of Early English Women's Writing
• Co-Founder and Chief Engineer, Sono Luminus Studios, including the Sono Luminus/Dorian Label

EDUCATION

• B.A. California State University: Graduation with Distinction
• M.A. Claremont Graduate School: California State Fellow
• M.S. Stanford University: Statistics and Computer Science

PAST ASSOCIATIONS

• Director, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
• Founder, Director, Executive V.P., Cisco Systems Corporation
• Director, Network Systems and Computer Services, Schlumberger Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory
• Director, Computing Services, Stanford University Graduate School of Business

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

• 2011 Executive Producer, "Hitching and Driving" Video companion to book
• Holder, U.S. Patent No. D451,646S (Pet Carrier)
• 2011 Author, Second Impressions
• 2004 Translator and Editor, Hitching and Driving
• 1997, 1999 Author, Dilettante's Dictionary: The Art & Science

HONORARY

• 2013 Plenary Speaker Jane Austen Society of North America
• Sackler Center First Award
• 2012 Plenary Speaker Jane Austen Society of North America
• 2011 Speaker, Jane Austen Society of Washington, D.C.
• 2011 Speaker, British Federation of Women Graduates (U.K.) on Austen
• 2010 Grammy, Best Classical Record, Technical Award for Best Album (SonoLuminus)
• 2011 Speaker, Jane Austen Society, S. California
• 2009 IEEE Entrepreneur Life-time Award
• 2009 "Famous People on Jane Austen" film, Morgan Library, NY, Film Participant
• 2008 Ph.D. (Hon.) Winchester University (U.K.)
• 2008 Ph.D. (Hon.) Southampton University (U.K.)
• 2007 Ph.D. (Hon.) Goucher College
• 2007 Speaker, Jane Austen Society of New York
• 2005, 2009 Plenary Speaker Jane Austen Society of England
• 2005 Elected to Membership in the Cosmos Club
• 2005 Ph.D. (Hon.) Shenandoah University
• 2005 Speaker, Jane Austen Society of Stanford
• 2004 Ph.D. (Hon.) Washington and Jefferson University
• 2004 Crossing Borders Award, The Feminist Press
• 2003 Speaker, Chawton Speaker Series
• 2002 Founder, Chawton House Library
• 2000 Gold Medal, United Animal Nations
• 1997 Humane Achievement Award, Friends of Animals
• 1997 Inaugural Award, Jane Austen Society of North America
• 1996 International Innovation in Packaging Award (Urban Decay)
• 1996 Humanitarian of the Year, Progressive Animal Welfare Society
• 1996 Distinguished Alumnae Award, C.S.U., Chico
• 1984 Founding Member, Stanford Jane Austen Society