She comes from drought-stricken Los Angeles and is still adjusting to the wonderfully wet weather of Puget Sound. Aside from freelancing for a variety of media, social justice, and lifestyle clients, she has an unhealthy obsession with post-apocalyptic western-sci-fi comic books, loose-leaf tea and natural history. She holds several state and national college media awards for her design work, and graduated at the top of her journalism class from California State University, Northridge. Her reporting areas of coverage include creative resistance and sustainable death practices (the potentials for body composting have never been more exciting).