Kuiper is a communications professional with more than 15 years of broadcast news experience under her belt. She left the TV business to pursue a career in public affairs. Kuiper now works as a public affairs pecialist for the DoD. She has a bachelor's degree from Edinboro Univerity of Pennsylvania and a master's from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Information at Syracuse University, both in communications. Kuiper's first book (under her maiden name, Gardner) is a history of her hometown, Picture Rocks, Pennsylvania.