In 2018, as an EOPA cause-oriented organizer, Ramona organized 80 military veterans who are lawmakers from every state to successfully help reauthorize the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund. Ramona is the Editorial Director of Protect Earth News magazine. PEN’s in-depth reporting focuses on critical issues by highlighting personal stories. She started Maine Insights in 2005 and is the executive director. Her efforts got the attention of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development and they hired her for communications. 

Ramona has worked as a reporter, speech writer, ghost writer, and a freelance writer with articles in the Smithsonian American Indian, and news outlets. She has also published fictional short stories. She owns Insights public relations, and is the cofounder of the non-profit Solon Center for Research and Publishing, which has a bookstore/gallery in Rockland, Maine. As a public relations specialist she’s put together campaigns, written grants, op-eds, designed websites, logos and ads.

As a novelist, Manitou, a Mythological Journey in Time, was published in 1998, Between To Rivers will be published in 2025, and her young adult novel, The Quest to Save the Seasons—Book 1 Resistance Revolution, will be published later this year. Additionally, Ramona has penned and published three books of children’s poems, and has a passion for researching indigenous cultures with the goal of spreading awareness of their cultural heritage. “Our humanity depends on us understanding each other and other cultures,” she often says. Ramona’s love of photography led her to live in different countries around the world where she exhibited her work. After being abroad for 11 years, in 1991 she settled in Maine with her husband, Paul, and their children Alex, Emily and Rebecca.