By her own account, she has taught "doctors, personal trainers, screenwriters, professional gamblers, corporate lawyers, teachers, housewives, landscape gardeners, librarians, cod fishermen, TV executives."
The plight of rugged Scottish cod fishermen forced to scrap their boats is the subject of "Gutted," a Wide Angle documentary, tonight.
Many cod fishermen also hold licenses to net salmon.
To help cod fishermen and lobstermen recover lost income from reduced quotas, they want to allow them to fish for crab, which is still relatively abundant.
Coinciding with the overfishing and decline of cod, was the decline in cod fisherman and the yearly catch per fisherman.
Lining the wharf were quaint bright red and yellow wooden houses, home to cod fishermen and whalers who used Reine as their home port.
"It's the joy of having lunch over the fishing grounds," the ruddy-faced, 44-year-old cod fisherman said.
And with them have gone most of the commercial cod fishermen, who now are asked to abide by strict regulations.
At the same time, the number of cod fishermen has fallen considerably in my country.
However, our cod fishermen are faced with illegal, unreported and unregulated catches of 40% above official landings.