During her college years, Valerie continued to study vocal music, as well as spend a short time performing with the university's concert band on the euphonium and performing with the percussion ensemble. Some of her choral performances include Mozart's Requiem, Faure's Requiem, Missa Brevis of St. John, and various selections of world music, including some in the languages of Chinese, Japanese, Welsh, Nigerian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian, and French, at which time she sang with her university's concert choir and Coralia, coro de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, in a performance on campus. These performances were also held at various locations, including the Old North Chruch in Boston, Mass, Montreal, Canada, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland.
She has performed at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center with the ProArt Chorale, performing in their rendition of Mendelssohnn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was also a member of the production of Amhal and the Night Visitors, which was an experimental project for a new section of the music department that hasn't come fully into fruitation.
A recent graduate of Kean University, Valerie earned her B.A. in Music performance with a minor in Management Science. She was also Vice President, then President of the Dolce Roses, who were trying to reinstall the inactive Zeta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota at Kean. Soon after her graduation, the determined M.I.T. became one of the youngest Patronesses of the Northern New Jersey Alumnae Chapter, who finally gave her a "SAI Home."