I grew up in the mountains and high desert of Northern Nevada.  Traveling to France in high school began to stir up my interest in the built environment, but architecture remained an amateur pursuit for many years.  

My studies at Hillsdale College offered more opportunities to travel, culminating with a semester abroad in Tours, France.  My love for beautiful spaces grew, and I started to capture them through photography.  

After serving a missionary year in New England, I moved back home to the Silver State and began to pursue a career in business and finance.  But my heart just wasn't in it, so I finally took my passion for architecture off the proverbial shelf.

As a graduate student in the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, I was able to continue the liberal arts education I started at Hillsdale and dove into the beauty and long history of architecture through Notre Dame’s classically based program. I especially love to explore traditional and vernacular design. After graduating with my M.Arch in 2015, I spent four years immersed in Florida’s building traditions working at a premier residential firm in Vero Beach. The summer of 2019 brought big changes, and now I am back in the mountains, this time the Rockies. Working in the world of sacred architecture, I get to help pastors and parishes bring more beauty back into their churches. The work I get to do with my team at Studio io is a joy, and we love the clients we work with every day. I still get to put my residential design skills to good use too, helping friends and family here and there and dreaming with my husband about all the features our dream house will have.

I am also interested in how building traditionally can help us build more sustainably as well as how it can promote the use of local materials, labor, and craftsmanship.  Regional culture and character is intimately tied to traditional design; if we do not study it, preserve it, promote it, and pursue it, we risk losing it.