Dympna is an instructor of Journalism at Fresno City College.  She has been with State Center Community College District since 1993, serving as an instructor of English and Journalism at the Madera and Clovis Centers. Before joining SCCCD, Dympna was tenured at the Middlesex County College in New Jersey.  Before New Jersey, she was a professor of Journalism at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Dympna holds a Bachelor's Degree (English, minor in Magazine Journalism) from Briarcliff College, a Master's of Science (Print Journalism) from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and a Doctorate Degree (Educational Leadership) from California State University, Fresno, and University of California, Davis.  

She has written and published extensively in national newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek and the New York Times.  Her first book, What Will My Mother Say (A Tribal African Girl Comes of Age in America), describes her childhood in the traditional Ibo culture of Nigeria where a woman's value is determined by factors she does not control.  The book chronicles her war-torn childhood.  Dympna's second book, In the Eyes of God (A Biafran story) is awaiting publication. Her children Delia, Chuka, and Obi have attended Princeton and Harvard, respectively, and been afforded the best educations that the US can provide. They are wonderful people.