After a long stint in marketing and consulting, Roberta decided it was time to make a career shift. She became energized by the idea of working with children, especially children needing extra assistance in reading. She now specializes in tutoring children with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. She uses the Orton-Gillingham approach to Multisensory Structured Language Education, having successfully completed the AOGPE (Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators) Subscriber Course and the requirements for the Associate Level Multisensory Structured Language Education Orton-Gillingham Course. She finished her practicum hours, supervised by the Carolina Day School in Asheville which is accredited through the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council. Roberta is also a Certified Academic Language Practitioner through ALTA (Academic Language Therapy Association).

Roberta was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but fell in love with the South during her undergraduate years at the University of South Carolina and graduate school years at the University of Georgia. She and her husband raised their three daughters (now young adults) in Atlanta and Decatur. She credits her middle daughter, a 3rd grade teacher in Greenville, South Carolina, with inspiring her to make the leap from business to a fulfilling position as a literacy tutor. In her spare time, Roberta loves to read, walk her dog Tessi, and get away to the North Georgia mountains.