Ardra Vanessa Spector teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University and works full-time as their Web Operations Specialist. She served as Graphic Design Program Coordinator at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey. She has taught for DeVry University and Middlesex County College. Before that, she adjuncted at Kean University, Brookdale Community College, Union County College, and County College of Morris in central and northern New Jersey.
 

In addition to graphic design and teaching, she has exhibited her fine art paintings in various gallery shows all over New York and New Jersey. Among her most notable work as a graphic designer was the logo used by Rutgers University, Livingston College, and the logo (recently altered) but still used by radio station WDHA 105.5