About Me

Right now...

I am finishing my studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I am an art major with two minors. My primary focus is in photography and my minors are in music performance and film studies. I love being part of the UAF community and am member of several organizations.

I have served as the Director of the Frozen Lenses Photography Club and have played the string bass with the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra. I also served as the photo editor for The Sun Star for a several years and have freelanced as a photojournalist for the Juneau Empire and around the state of Alaska. In 2016, I won Best Portrait at the state journalism conference, Alaska Press Club.

I worked as the assistant photographer for the University of Alaska Fairbanks under Chief Photographer, JR Ancheta. I also worked for the UAF College of Liberal Arts as a marketing assistant and served as a jack of all trades but primarily functioned as a staff photographer and social media manager.

I have two wonderful dog babies, Beauty and Fizzy who were both rescue animals. I’m secretly, not so secretly, obsessed with my dogs and am constantly outside enjoying the great outdoors with my furry babies.

I love living in Alaska, it's always an adventure! I was a tour guide with Northern Alaska Tour Company for the first several years I moved to Fairbanks. I operated a 25 passenger coach on the infamous Dalton Highway and took visitors to the Arctic Circle and beyond. I have an affinity for the Arctic and the North. For anyone who didn't get a chance to come to Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska LIVE event last November 2019 at Hering Auditorium when I told my story "The Little Tour Bus that Could"- you get a second chance! Here is a link to the original recording here. Guess what? My story was featured on NPR!!

I worked with the Fairbanks Concert Association as the Director of Sales & Operations Manager. FCA is a small non-profit and there were only two of us in the office making all the magic happen behind the scenes. I had the pleasure of working with the amazing, Anne Biberman, Executive Director of FCA. FCA brings the best, most diverse professional performing artists to Interior Alaska from all over the world and connects them with Interior Alaskans. They create opportunities for everyone to participate. They’re part of the community. They enhance it, they make it fun, and they bring people together in a joyous shared adventure. FCA does this through public performances and an ever-increasing number of outreach opportunities. They do this with your help, your input, and your participation.

I currently serve as the Public Information Officer for the University of Alaska College of Liberal Arts. CLA is an incubator for change-makers. CLA shapes and engages all facets of the human spirit through the arts, humanities, social sciences, and languages. Our graduates enter the workforce with the drive, passion, and most important experience that employers seek.

Home to the academic core of UAF our goal is to help you become a versatile, highly employable citizen for a modern and ever-changing world.  We are a highly-qualified bunch of rule-breakers who aren’t afraid to work outside of the box. We take great joy in our work and it shows.

In 1917, the campus was a single two-story frame building and had just six students. Today, the University of Alaska Fairbanks has grown to nearly 9,000 students seeking everything from associates degrees to Ph.D.s. The College of Liberal Arts is a collection of departments in the arts, humanities, languages, and social sciences. With 16 departments and more than 40-degree programs, we are able to create a highly interdisciplinary academic environment, greatly influenced by our location in Fairbanks.  Whether in an art studio or research lab, the College of Liberal Arts is always naturally inspiring.

My expertise is in digital marketing and social media management. I am a jill of all trades and bring photography, videography, and graphic design to my position as CLA’s Public Information Officer. If you belong to the CLA family as a student, faculty, staff, alumni, or otherwise and have an event, fundraiser, accolade, or story you want to share with the public- I'm your first stop! I oversee the UAF College of Liberal Arts social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and CLA's Digital Sign. I am also the contact person for Cornerstone submissions in CLA.

Additionally, I am the Digital Photo Assistant and Online Marketing Manager for well-known Alaskan wildlife and Iditarod photographer, Jeff Schultz. Not only have I worked on the Iditarod trail during the race by Schultz’s side for the last two years but now I am working with him year-round. If you are looking for a custom tour of a lifetime or just gorgeous Alaska photos to drool over check out Jeff Schultz Photography website here.

In addition to photojournalism assignments and documenting work, a great deal of my photography revolves around the nude female figure. Much of my work revolves around form studies and is a contemporary take on boudoir photography. I am involved in the body-positive movement and my goal is to create beautiful images of women that will empower them and hopefully shape a more confident sense of ownership and pride of their bodies. An overarching theme that ties my work together is the resilience of the human spirit. I explore the concept of resilience through collaborations in documentary-style fieldwork.

I have made a home for myself in the Interior and currently live and work in Fairbanks, AK.

It all started when...

Born in Carson City, NV and raised in Honduras on the island of Roatán- traveling, culture and language have been a large part of my life. 

Growing up on a tropical island off the coast of Honduras in Central America, I was never without a black, plastic disposable camera. Camera firmly clenched in my hand, I weaved and bobbed through the mangrove trees on our property at the water’s edge taking photos of everything.

Taking photos is something I have loved for as long as I can remember. I’d never have guessed the disposable cameras I ran around with would one day turn into viable career opportunity.  

At the young age of five, I distinctly recall thumbing through family photos and knowing I had something special in my hands. There is something magical about capturing a single and fleeting moment in an image that you can keep forever.

Despite photography being a large part of my life since I was a little girl, I initially did not pursue it when I went to college. I started college at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque as a Foreign Language major.