Eva is a graduate of Winthrop University, where she received a B.S. in marketing education and M.Ed. in secondary education. Her passion for travel and teaching abroad took her to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as the information technology teacher/coordinator for an international school. She retired from West Ashley High School in Charleston, South Carolina as a business education teacher who taught entrepreneurship and other business and computer-related courses. She was recognized for her talents in the classroom and awarded the 2011 Charleston County Teacher of the Year. Her personal and professional travels have taken her to fifty countries and six continents including cultural exchange opportunities as a marketing and business educator in Moscow, Russia and Bornholm, Denmark. Eva brings an educational perspective to ECM and a wealth of experience to the organization as a certified YEScarolina entrepreneurship teacher of twelve years with a number of regional, state, and national student winners in the business plan competitions.