Helping students achieve their dreams is Adrienne's passion and is the reason she spent the first 45 years of her career helping college and university students achieve success. What that experience taught her is that too many students come to higher education, or assume adult roles, socially, emotionally, and academically unprepared for what is before them. With that reality as her motivation, and with her dedication to student and personal success in college and in life, Adrienne has written numerous articles about the college experience and her series of graphic novels, She's Roxanne!, was born.

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Adrienne has worked at large and small, urban and rural, two-year and four-year, and public and private colleges and universities throughout the U.S. Although she has worked in a variety of different capacities as an administrator and an instructor, the highlight of any position she held was the knowledge that the work she was doing would in some way help students achieve their goals.

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​Adrienne holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Vermont, an MEd in Counseling from Boston University, and a PhD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Oregon. When she is not walking her dog, Roxanne, or working on writing projects, you can find Adrienne reading, traveling, at the gym, shopping at Marshalls, or enjoying the company of family and good friends over good food. The meal always ends with ice cream!