I began working with glass in 2004, the year that I graduated from Oberlin College. My partner at the time and I started teaching ourselves torchworking (melting glass rods and tubes in a flame) in a sheet metal shed in the backyard. My first job out of college was at Simon Pearce (queechee, VT) where I learned the basics of furnace glassblowing. i then moved cross country to Tucson to work for Tom Philabaum, a well-known glassblower famous for his reptilian pattern. after about a year, I shifted over to the Sonoran Glass School (that he co-founded), where I learned other glass techniques including fusing/slumping, coldworking, stained glass, and mosaics.

I worked at the school for 7 years before I left the arts to pursue a career in environmental NGOs. While at the Center for Biological Diversity, I befriended Alexis, whose father had been working on a stained glass triptych for their living room when he passed away. Her family asked if I could finish his last piece, and in exchange, gifted me all of his equipment. And that's how I fell into stained glass as my medium. 

How/why I rebranded from the glass desert to goodness glass:

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The Glass Desert, my business from 2020-2025, focused heavily on Sonoran Desert inspired pieces. This worked well for me for a while, as I pushed my limits experimenting with desert flowers, birds, pollinators, cacti (oh so many cacti), and tucson treats. But after making what was probably 10,000 cacti, I found myself stuck and sick of work.  

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At the same time (2024), I began to address my longstanding fear of death. This translated into a body of work that explored death as a scaffold for life, and started taking me down a path of really different designs. i felt invigorated and excited to work on a slew of new designs through the fall of 2024 into spring of 2025. I found my spark again and decided to continue the shift away from desert art into work inspired by the fleeting nature of dreams, light, and life. 

Now, in my 43rd year, I feel like I'm finally hitting my stride. So here I go onto my intended mission of spreading goodness. 

All things joyous, all things strange. 

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Please welcome Goodness Glass.

Thank you for being here. ​