She also served as Dean of the College of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences at Long Island University from 1998 to 2004 and had an international banking career for 15 years.
Waldron started her academic career as an assistant professor of Latin American history at Bowdoin College in Maine.
During that time, she led the strategic planning efforts of the global private banking division and also served as president of Citibank International in Miami from 1991-1996.
Waldron is the co-author of Higher Education Leadership: Pathways and Insights with Professor Sharmila Pixy Ferris of WPU which was published in 2021.
She served on the board of Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida; the Hamilton Partnership for Paterson, creating a new national park; NJEDGE, a higher education tech consortium; the Tinker Foundation dedicated to promoting development and democracy in Latin America; the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey; the New Jersey Presidents Council; the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities; the MetroTech BID in Brooklyn, New York, a community development agency; Accion, an international development NGO; and the Fulbright Association.