Helen is a member of the National Flute Association, the British Flute Society, and the Association of Flutists of Spain, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Raleigh Area Flute Association. For several years, she was Coordinator of the Children's Program at the National Flute Association National Convention, the largest gathering of flutists in the world. She gave her first international presentation in the spring of 1999 at a London Flutewise event that drew 5,000 participants. In June 2004, at the personal invitation of Sir James Galway, Helen spent two days observing him record his award-winning CD "Wings of Song" with the London Symphony Orchestra at historic Abbey Road Studios in London. From 1995 to 2005, she was the Assistant Manager for FLUTE, an Internet discussion group of 2,500 flutists from 45 countries.