Dr. Bloomquist was certified as a school psychologist in 1997 and began working in the field of school psychology in the greater Pittsburgh area. For eight years, she worked as the single full-time school psychologist in the Montour School District in McKees Rocks, Pa.

During this time, she was highly invested in special education identification and program evaluation, provided ongoing workshops and individual consultation to educational professionals, implemented a school-wide bullying prevention program, developed a crisis-response team, worked to establish district norms using curriculum-based measurement and created a videotape titled "Introduction to the IEP" for parents to review in order to better understand special education procedures and to facilitate family-school relationships. 

She was invited to teach Educational Psychology as a teaching associate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for three semesters beginning in 1997. In 2005, she joined the faculty at IUP as a temporary assistant professor. She also served as the acting co-coordinator of the Peer Educator Program within IUP's Learning Enhancement Center and was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi. 

In 2008, she accepted a full-time tenure-track position at Cal U as assistant professor in the Psychology Department. Bloomquist is both the host and an educational consultant for "Meet Me at the Great Tree," an original children's television program produced by the National Network of Digital Schools. This public service announcement is designed to get preschool and kindergarten children excited about learning and literacy.