Meet the Maker

I grew up in the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains near Yosemite, constantly going on rockhounding trips all over the west with my grandparents. My love for nature and turquoise started as a kid and people have always known me to be adorned with turquoise jewelry. Being an artist who has dabbled in many art forms, I picked up silversmithing in 2018 and quickly found my groove, making nature-inspired jewelry, with turquoise being my main stone of choice to work with. I taught myself how to work with silver and continue to grow & learn this new trade everyday, with all my creations being one of a kind and my designs forever evolving.

On top of creating jewelry, I work full time with the U.S. Forest Service. I’ve worked seasonally for many years as a wildlife technician, starting my career backpacking all over the high Sierra to monitor endangered frog and toad species, that following winter, I worked as a snowmobile ranger, patrolling the Wyoming Range in the Bridger-Teton NF. The following summer, I went off to the Colorado Rockies, where I worked another wildlife position performing various surveys including; northern goshawk, amphibians, peregrine falcons, bighorn sheep and pikas. I then went back to work another season as a snowmobile ranger in Wyoming and worked that following summer season as an OHV Ranger in Central Oregon, patrolling and maintaining ATV riding trails on the Deschutes NF.

I have now lived in Jackson, WY for the past 5+ years and work as a Wildlife Biologist, where I get to monitor our threatened, endangered and sensitive wildlife species and their habitat on the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Dream Job in the most dreamy Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.