Bobbie was born and raised in rural Maine, her father was a refugee from the Vietnam war and her mother descends from a long line of rural Mainers. She holds an EdS in Education Technology, a graduate certificate in K-12 online teaching, a MsEd in Teaching Methodology and a BA in Psychology. She also spent an additional year abroad studying Comparative Religion and Culture in Japan, India, and Israel. She has fourteen years experience in Maine public schools teaching a wide range of social studies courses and serving as an IB Coordinator. In the winter of 2022 she accepted a School Culture Coordinator position at Lincoln Middle School, and has since become Certified as a Restorative Justice Specialist. 

Over her career she has led a handful of workshops at educator conferences at the state level and has made other professional contributions on topics related to teaching global perspectives in rural communities and the innovative use of technology as a medium for learning design. She has been selected to participate in Global Classroom Dialogues and to participate in a National Humanities Center (NHC) Summer Teacher Institute. In addition to being a Teachers For Global Classrooms fellow, she was named a Fund For Teachers (FFT) Fellow in 2015 (studying in Vietnam and Cambodia), and she was a FFT Innovative Circle grant recipient in 2022. She is also a proud member of the Maine Education Association, serving on the MEA BIPOC committee and as a delegate at the MEA and NEA Representative Assemblies. At the NEA she is a member of APIC, the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus.