25 years of making
weird, beautiful things.

The longer story.

25 years in the creative world and I still can't pick a lane — which honestly feels like the point. Design, motion, web, collage, AR filters at 2am — I love it all, and I'll keep doing it all. But teaching? Teaching is the constant. No matter where my career wanders, that one stays.

I've got three degrees (overachiever, guilty) — a B.A. in Communication Sciences and Journalism from Tecnológico de Monterrey, an M.A. in Multimedia from CSU East Bay, and an M.A. in Interactive Design & Game Development from SCAD. I started teaching at CSU East Bay right after grad school, then spent nearly a decade at Cañada College before trading the Bay Area for the Rockies in 2010. These days I'm in the Journalism & Media Communication Department at CSU Fort Collins, which is exactly as fun as it sounds.

Home base is Fort Collins with my husband Peter, our daughter, Luna the dog, and Sage the cat — a perfectly chaotic household. When I'm not designing or teaching, you'll find me camping by the river, deep in a sourdough rabbit hole, printing linocuts, or convincing myself I need another plant.

When I'm not designing.

The short version: I'm probably making something, eating something, reading something, or watching Ancient Aliens as background noise. (They visit genuinely incredible archaeological sites. I stand by it entirely.)

I paint — gouache, watercolor, cyanotypes, whatever caught my eye at the art supply store that week. I do linoprints, I embroider, I sew, I garden. My hands are usually doing something. Cooking and baking get the same obsessive energy I bring to design projects, which the household tolerates with remarkable grace.

On the bookshelf front: I'm a romantasy, horror, and sci-fi person. I collect beautiful physical books like trophies — they look incredible on the shelf — but I actually read on my Kindle or via audiobooks. This is a moral contradiction I have fully made peace with.

I'm also getting back into bike riding after a pretty humbling ankle fracture last year. We're getting there. I travel for work and for fun, and I love both kinds — though the fun kind has better snacks.

My favorite things though: my daughter thinks art is the coolest thing in the world and draws constantly. My husband brings enough curiosity to this family for all three of us, which is really saying something. And my work community — they are a genuinely solid, warm group of people who make it possible to love this job even on the days when it's hard. That's not nothing. That's actually everything.