Vicki has been teaching literature, writing and research in higher education since 2001, and has been a Professor at VCU since 2007. She has been home educating her two daughters for over eleven years, including five years participating and teaching in a co-op with her church homeschool group. Her children have attended Westminster since 2019. A nomad by nature due to her father’s military service, she has lived all over the U.S. and in Germany; thanks to her husband’s background, she also considers Kenya her second home. She has been a musician for most of her life, serving in music ministry at her church for a number of years. She also has a heart to serve people of all nations, and regularly teaches in the ESL program at her church.