About me:
Brought into the world in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew up for most of her life in Woking, Surrey.Her love of comedy growing up saw her to participate in acting classes at the Guildford School of Acting and Italia Conti, and
authoring the school plays as she got older.
Alice's aspiration was to write comedy and be a performer, but another ambition was fulfilled when she
began volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while attending University.
From then on, Alice was hooked on animal care and worked to take that path instead.
Alice began her Zookeeping journey in 2014 at London Zoo ZSL where she worked on 3 different animal departments.
In 2015, she left the Zoo life to manage a Children's Farm in North London but after a few
years, chose to go back to exotic animals, relocating
to Costa Rica for 7 months to study Toucans and assist in Sloth research.
When she returned to England, she returned to Zookeeping, and became a Carnivore Keeper at Shepreth Wildlife Park, where she stayed for nearly 5 years.
During this time, she established the Keeper Educational Exchange Programme (or KEEP),
a not-for-profit organisation that allows Zookeepers from across
the UK and beyond to gain knowledge from each other through spending time at other collections.
She has presented on the programme at the ABWAK Symposium
and the BIAZA Annual Conference and the organisation is proud to be BIAZA
Endorsed and supported by Birdworld, in Surrey.
In 2023, seeking a creative outlet, Alice launched the animal-comedy podcast: "Asshole Animals with Alice", that explores animal behaviour in a humorous fashion, with the help of experts across the world.
In the initial months of her podcast, she was joined by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing,
Jungle Jordan, Bertie Gregory and hopes to continue
talking to hilarious experts about animals with a bad reputation.
Alice was also nominated for BIAZA's "Woman of the Year" award in 2023.