Samantha is enrolled as a Master's student with emphasis/concentration in Mathematics. She is currently certified to teach secondary mathematics in Missouri, and her student teaching experience included high school Algebra I and Algebra II. She was also a tutor at the Math Resource Center in Fall 2004, and earlier in May of that year visited Australian K-12 classrooms as part of the International Mission on Education. As an undergraduate at UMKC, Samantha was a Trustee's Scholar, a selective scholarship awarded to only 10 freshman each year.
Samantha wrote an expository paper on mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi that was published in the 2004-2005 UMKC Sosland Journal and won the Ilus W. Davis Writing Competition in the Advanced category. The paper also later won first place in the 2006 third annual HOMSIGMAA contest.
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