I'm an award-winning photographer, entrepreneur and San Francisco Bay Area native. My passion for the natural world, multi-culturalism and wildlife developed early, from my grandmother. I picked up a camera at the age of 13 and have been mostly self-taught, with the exception of a few great mentors and teachers along the way.

I received an undergraduate degree in Political Economics and Spanish from UCLA and an MBA from Dominican University in Cross-Cultural Communications and International Business. My photography is my love letter to our beautiful world, hoping for a sustainable, regenerative future. I seek out intimate moments with nature’s serenity or grandeur, as well as fun, interactive moments with all creatures great and small. I deeply believe that indigenous wisdom is essential to the future and our resiliency. I have traveled to more than 80 countries capturing a visual diary of the awe that I encounter. I find that my lens focuses on the moments of shared humanity among all life forms: moments of presence, a moment of connection between two beings, a moment of stillness with oneself, filtering out the unnecessary noise.

My award-winning work has been published in National Wildlife magazine and won 1st place at the prestigious Travel Writer & Photography contest, which was judged by a panel of six National Geographic photographers. I was also awarded 1st place in a photo contest judged by Ansel Adam’s grandson, Matthew Adams, the current president of The Ansel Adams Gallery.  My work has been collected by dozens of art collectors nationally and is featured in several corporate and public spaces.