Dr. White is a UC-Davis (CA) Veterinary graduate (1990) and one of the earliest Corrections and Social Welfare from Sacramento State University (1975). She has always seen community work as a priority. She was of the earliest veterinarians to have an educational focus on native wildlife rehabilitation. She entered an MS degree program in Social Work and left it to complete an application to UC Davis Veterinary School.   Alida Morzenti, MS trained her in falconry methods and raptor rehabilitation, at UC Raptor Center (UC Davis) in the mid-1970s and later taught course work at UC in the early 1990s as a graduate.  She worked in various capacities from a Board Member to Executive Director of the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council (IWRC) and was a shared BOD member to the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association (NWRA) for many years.  She led the charge to develop a set of National Wildlife Rehabilitation Standards while on both boards of directors and was awarded a significant achievement award from the NWRA for getting the first set of minimum standards established in the United States.  The IWRC also acknowledged her contributions to the wildlife rehabilitation field when she left that ED position in the late 1980s.  Dr. White wrote the first Wildlife Rehabilitation 1AB Manual, which was used in the IWRC Skills Seminar Program (taught worldwide) for 30+ years.  A new manual is now in use for which she wrote the forward to introduce to a new generation of wildlife rehabilitators.  She worked on many oil spill responses in the 1980s and 1990s and learned the details of caring for seabirds literally with the birds in her hands. She helped in research to find ways to offset the effects of oil on birds.  These birds are difficult to provide care and in this period of time, wildlife rehabilitators learned how to do it successfully.  Dr. White has trained wildlife rehabilitators via the skills seminars, oiled wildlife training programs, and trains potential wildlife care professionals from veterinary technicians, veterinary doctors, and wildlife rehabilitators to this day.  Our veterinary internship program has ushered many new veterinary students into professional school to hopefully return to her chosen profession.  Dr. White has worked hard with many other contributors in her life to produce professional journal articles on how to successfully rear and release many wildlife species in the journal of IWRC, which laid the path for many wildlife rehabilitators to follow the path that she has made.  At PSWC, she is the chief trainer for the internship program and has worked to develop a very detailed online training program with the help of many staff and interns over the years.  This program involves online training, in-person training, and skills and online testing. 

As the ED of PSWC, she oversees the programs operated by staff and implemented by the Board of Directors.  She is unpaid in her work.  She has many publications in the field and is largely acknowledged for her efforts to transition the field of wildlife rehabilitation from a group of dedicated early workers to a professional trade with career jobs.