Born and raised in Northern California, she now lives with her husband and two children in San Luis Obispo. She graduated from Cal Poly with a degree in Landscape Architecture and has been balancing a professional life in landscape design, painting and motherhood on the Central Coast for the last 19 years. Her work has been shown in a variety of solo and group exhibits in SLO County over the last 8 years, including two permanent installations as part of the City of San Luis Obispo’s Art Box project in the downtown area.