Jodi grew up on a farm in Warrendale, PA where she enjoyed horseback riding and the outdoors. After she graduated from RSPC Business Institute, Jodi launched her career in restaurant management. Jodi searched everywhere from Alabama to Delaware for a spot to open her restaurant and chose Slippery Rock with Bob as home in 1998. She brings 20 years of quality food service to the North Country Brewery.

Jodi is the Mother of three beautiful children: Danielle, Lacey, and Jacob. She has served as "Worthy Advisor" for the Rainbow Girls, an organization in which she was very visiting orphanages and nursing homes, writing letters for the elderly.

Jodi also worked on several archeological digs on the Gettysburg battlefield and in the mountains of West Virginia.