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Favorite Hobbies?
I don't have time for hobbies, but I enjoy wine, singing, playing the piano, sleeping and dog snuggles!

Buildings you like/dislike the most?
I like: the work of Richard Neutra, Mies Van de Rohe, John Lautner, Joseph Eichler, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Julia Morgan; the Crown Zellerbach Building, San Francisco (SOM); Centre Pompidou, Paris (Renzo Piano), Courtney's Chicken Coop, La Selva.
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Why do you love what you do?
If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to build theirs.
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Your cliffnote Bio?
Spent my childhood building dens and mud pies on my family's sheep farm in Wales, UK.  I had an allergic reaction to homework. Made it to Art College, where I studied ceramics and furniture design. I fell in love with The Bay Area while interning for 18 months at an architecture firm in San Francisco, before the Great Recession. In 2008, I graduated with a BA honors degree in Interior Architecture & Design and a diploma in Industrial Studies from Nottingham Trent University. I returned to Santa Cruz in 2013, and began working for Fuse in June 2014. I became a licensed Architect in October 2019 to prove my art teacher wrong. I still haven't told her.