Immediate Past President of San Diego Chapter:

Award Winning Jeweler

Awards & Scholarships

Centurion Emerging Designer Award, international juried competition to exhibit at Centurion Art of Jewelry Trade Show, Tucson AZ, Januray 31- February 4, 2009

Couture Jewelry Awards, Second Place Silver/Alternative metals, Pratt Manison NYC Dec. 2007

Niche Award Finalist, “recognizing outstanding creative achievements of American craft artists who produce work for galleries and retail stores”The Rosen Group, Baltimore, MD: Golden Sunburst Necklace+,Shooting Star Necklace, 2009 Cactus Spike Pendant+Cactus Bud Brooch, 2003; Venus Ring 2000

E. Avery Draper Award: Outstanding One Person Craft Exhibition in 2000, for the exhibition titled Aposematic Ornament: The Allure of Natural Defensive Form, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE awarded Feb. 2002

Graduate Studies Scholarships, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY: 1992 - 1994

Women’s Jewelry Association Scholarship: WJA, New York, NY, toward my MFA, second year at Rochester Institute of Technology, 1993 - 1994 academic year

Arthur King Goldsmith Award, annual academic prize at Rochester Institute of Technology: Honorable Mention for goldwork: May of 1992 & 1993