I am a student in my last year at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz County, where this June I will earn an AA-T in Studio Arts, with the intention of transferring to an undergraduate studio art program starting fall 2025.

I started drawing in preschool, and I’ve never stopped. My interests are illustration, animation, textiles, mixed media. I also have an interest in writing, especially storytelling, and in high school participated in Young Writers Program workshops at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

A lot of my artwork started as self-taught, however in addition to art classes in high school and at Cabrillo, I’ve also taken extension classes in woodworking, basket making, Shibori Japanese fabric techniques, stained and fused glass, and sewing. And I’ve taken online illustration and animation extension classes at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Some of my influences are the illustrations of Richard Scarry along with Tove Janssen, Elsa Beskow and plates from Lewis Carroll books, in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I also love looking through the art of M. C. Escher and Junji Ito. For animation, I take inspiration from Amanita Design games, especially Botanicula, and from Cartoon Saloon films such as The Secret of Kells and Wolf Walkers.

I was an active Girl Scout Troup member from 2011-2019, and did community work for local organizations such as the Santa Cruz Homeless Garden Project. In 2019 our troop completed a Silver Award project for the Santa Clara Reentry Resource Center. I have also worked for Food What?! a local youth empowerment and food justice organization. Since 2019 I have been playing the Zimbabwean Shona style of marimba at Singing Wood Marimba Studio in Santa Cruz.