Born in San Diego in 1969,she started her career as an architect at the Californian Polytechnic University, specialising later in San  Luis Obispo and in Firenze.

She started working with Sottsass Associati in 1985 and became a partner in 1989.

In 1994 she began her collaboration with Salviati, designing blown glass decorative objects and tabletop objects in crystal.
For Salviati she designed Abyss, Babele and Bassorilievi among others.