Claudia’s professional career spans a period of thirty-four years, twenty of which were spent in educational administration. She served as a teacher of special education, a K-12 special education consultant, a director of special education, a federal projects director, an assistant high school principal, and principal of a large Class A High School. Claudia concluded her career as the Head of Upper School (High School principal) at a private international K-12 school in Thorpe, England. She has served as the President of the Michigan High School Principals Association (MASSP), President of the Michigan Association of Administrators of Special Education (MAASE), served on the State Board of Education Task Force and served on the National Council On Standards for International Educational Exchange Programs Accreditation Committee. She has been actively involved in service clubs, her church and local and state organizations. These include Zonta Club International, Habitat for Humanity Women Build, Child Abuse and Neglect Team, Delta Kappa Gamma Society, Science Olympiad judge, and Sunday School superintendent and teacher, Youth Group advisor, Vacation Bible School volunteer, Minister of the Word and Minister of the Table (communion assistant).

In September 2018 Claudia was part of a Mission team who traveled to Uganda. It was a life transforming experience. When she first visited the village in Sayyi, Uganda, she witnessed humans suffering: children malnourished and infected with worms from lack of shoes, dying of treatable diseases; women receiving no prenatal and postnatal care; immunizations unavailable for easily prevented infections. Inspired by this mission experience and with a desire to serve, Claudia with prayers and miracles along the way and the commitment of many benevolent volunteers established in August 2020 the nonprofit Building Up: Partnering In Health and Wholeness. Serving as President of the organization they raised funds and built Tsiyon Family Hospital (TFH) in this underserved area of Uganda.  The hospital opened February 27, 2023, and now provides quality, accessible healthcare to the community of Sayyi and neighboring villages. It is saving and transforming lives and will for many years to come.