Chef Carol received a BS at the University of Illinois in Hotel Restaurant Management, an Associates in Culinary Arts at the Culinary Institute of America-NY, and a Masters in Hospitality and Tourism Management at Roosevelt University.

After working for various restaurant groups in Chicago, she went on to teach Culinary Arts at the Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago for 13 years as an Associate Professor. In 2016, she moved to Seattle where she started the teaching kitchen program at Google in Kirkland and ran the program for 5 years before transferring to the Google South Lake Union campus and facilitated the opening of the program there for an additional 3 1/2 years.