Having grown up on the border of Arizona and Mexico in Nogales, AZ, she has a strong appreciation for bilingual-bicultural communities, and this also causes her to truly value many different kinds of people and cultures. Prior to becoming a third generation licensed Real Estate Agent, she worked as a model, owned her own commercial fashion styling, casting call coordination, photography and branding company for 20 years in New York, Seattle and Arizona. After her move to Eugene with her husband she works at Edgewood Elementary School in behavior management. In her free time she enjoys time spent with her husband and daughter, photography, video editing and networking in the Portland fashion scene.