I have been working tirelessly, visiting happy hours all around Seattle expanding my knowledge of the food and drinks that make this city great. As a reformed vegetarian, I now enjoy eating meat daily and will often order the strangest sounding body part on the menu, since I am making up for lost time. When not eating bone marrow, tongue, or sweetbreads, I can usually be found acting on a Seattle stage somewhere, or in a park playing with my daughter. I’m also a rabid sports fan, decent cook, and enjoy solving and creating crossword puzzles on those notorious rainy Seattle days.

Among everything my late father taught me, there were three things that he instill a love for: theatre, food, and professional wrestling. These three things went on to serve as the anchors for all the insane paths that led me to this city (just a few short months ago) of which I am now proud to call home. Before I go on, I should say the following just for my Mom. You are my everything and continue to teach me every day. This next bit is for Dad. Sorry. I still love your chili and tacos! I digress...

I'm a recent transplant from Santa Cruz, CA with a degree in acting and years of experience working in the world of theatre, food, pro wrestling, and operations management. Life for me needs to have skateboarding, playing basketball, cooking, a bar that knows me by name, podcasts, lucha libre, and water. Tip well, know your server by name, bring back the Super Sonics, and never overcook an egg!

My Mom had a magic green thumb that’d transform our tiny backyard space into fruit and veggie heaven. Unfortunately, her signature dish was sautéed liver and onions with a giant dollop of ketchup. Bleck! Fast forward to my commitment to eating well with my daughters, ages 9 and 11 years. They have daily taste tests of fresh herbs from our garden. . . as does our French bulldog puppy! We buy from the Pike Place Market vendors, cook, and taste delicious food every day . . . only the dog gets liver.

I’m the Sales Manager of private events for Savor Seattle. In my past life, I worked for Eli Lilly in sales and also managed training and development of a sales force in an 8-state region. 18 overnights on the road got a little old, so transitioned these past 14 years to sales consulting and business coaching. When I’m not cooking and gardening, I’m designing semi-precious stone jewelry with my 11 year old daughter, who is now better than me at using a butane torch!

Born in the salmon capital of the world, Ketchikan, Alaska, some of my earliest memories are of our family on the docks watching the local fishermen haul in the world’s best seafood. The docks were a familiar spot for us because my dad ran our small island communities only grocery and my entrepreneurial mom had taken to offering city tours to cruise ship passengers using the family VW van. I suppose food and tourism were engrained in me from my earliest days, though it would take many more years before I married the two into a career. In my younger years I lived just outside of Seattle, Washington, and fell in love with local grown produce such as apples and strawberries. So much so that I relentlessly hassled my parents into buying me strawberry and tomato plants to grow in our backyard. This was before the appeal of growing food in suburban housing developments was as popular as it is today. When we moved to Portland, Maine I discovered lobster and steamers. And as a teen in Los Angeles, California I became a taco and street food enthusiast. Now back home in Seattle, I am always on the hunt for delicious new restaurants, or great recipes I can try at home.

Prior to joining Savor Seattle as the Senior Manager I spent my most recent years working in the Seattle startup scene using powerful data aggregation to make homeownership more joyful. Before that I was traveling the west coast, Alaska, Hawaii and Mexico as an Operations Manager for a boutique-adventure yachting company. Here at Savor Seattle, I work with our incredible team to make exploring Seattle a multi-sensorial and deliciously joyful experience for visitors and locals alike. When I am not at work you can find me dining around town, running along the waterfront, firing up a BBQ at my place in the foodie paradise neighborhood of Ballard, or most often, spoiling my Beagle puppy Patsy at a dog park nearby.

I am a self-proclaimed “food evangelist.” This translates into a huge love of eating, shopping for, and cooking, FOOD. I grew up working in my family’s restaurants and countless others. After graduating from the Wharton School, I moved to Chicago to work in Brand Management at Quaker Oats. My husband’s job brought us to Seattle, where we’ve never been happier to be so close to fresh seafood, local wine, and artisan cheese.

In my spare time, I enjoy giggling with my two kiddos, snowboarding, reading cooking magazines, and watching reality TV. My favorite foods include: foie gras, scrapple (yes, I know these two couldn’t be further from one another), sushi, and raw oysters. Americans would be a whole lot healthier if vegetables tasted like bacon. There are few things I won’t eat…and durian is one of them.