Northeastern University, Bachelor of Science in Psychology/Marketing 2001
Lesley University, Master of Fine Arts in Writing 2005

Cheryl's professional communication and marketing expertise ranges across formats in environments including retail, wellness, non-profit, financial, healthcare, manufacturing, food service, education and high tech.  She has worked with organizations of all sizes, diversities and budgets.  Entrepreneurial to corporate.

Her literary experience includes studies with New York Times Best Selling author David Elliot www.davidelliottbooks.com, renowned poet Steven Cramer www.stevencramer.net, Alexandra Johnson, author of The Hidden Writer (winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award for nonfiction), and international award-winning author Rachel Manley.

Cheryl has also taken workshops with Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate (1997-2000); children's author Maurice Sendak (best known for Where the Wild Things Are); Lloyd Schwartz, Pulitzer Prize for Criticism receipent (1994); and Tony Eprile, fiction author of The Persistence of Memory, named 2004 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as well as best book of 2004 by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.