Meet the Maker

As a kid I lived in a small mountain town called Twain Harte, located on the west side of the beautiful Sierra Nevada, near Yosemite NP. I grew up hiking, camping, just hanging out in nature looking for wildlife and 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. Later, I moved to Oregon, continuing my love for art. 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. The following winter, I worked as a snowmobile ranger, patrolling the Wyoming Range in the Bridger-Teton NF. That next summer, I went off to the Colorado Rockies on the White River NF, 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 winter 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 7+ years and work as a Wildlife Biologist, where I get to monitor our threatened, endangered and sensitive wildlife species while managing their habitat on the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Dream Job in the most dreamy Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.