Professor Todd received a bachelor's degree in music education from Arkansas State University and a master of music degree in voice from the New England Conservatory of Music. Further musical studies followed at Harvard University and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Awards and grants include a Fulbright Scholarship to study voice in Italy and a National Opera Institute special study grant.

Following an engagement with the Metropolitan Opera Studio in New York, Professor Todd moved to Europe, where she sang nearly fifty operatic roles with the Mainz, Salzburg, and Munich operas. Other solo engagements have taken her to opera houses and concert halls in cities around the world, including performances in New York, Boston, Vienna, Tokyo, Paris, Prague, Verona, and at the Salzburg International Music Festival. After winning the International Vocal Competition in Antwerp, Belgium, she went on to become a finalist in the Belvedere International Vocal Competition in Vienna, Austria. Professor Todd was a frequent soloist on Austrian and Bavarian national radios, as well as appearing as a soloist on a number of European television broadcasts.

While teaching at Barry University and the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Professor Todd co-founded and was a director of the Performing Arts Institute, which develops and promotes young artists. The Hartt School of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and New England Conservatory of Music are among the musical institutions which have presented Professor Todd in master classes. She is a frequent judge at vocal competitions and divides her time between teaching voice and vocal repertoire at the University of Missouri in Columbia and singing in the United States, Europe, and South America.