Brought into the world in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew up for the majority of her life in Surrey's Woking. Her passion for comedy during her youth led 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 dream was to write comedy and be a performer, but another dream was realised when she began volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while attending University. From then on, Alice was hooked on animal care and strived to pursue that career instead.
Alice started her Zookeeping journey in 2014 at ZSL London Zoo where she worked on 3 different animal departments. In 2015, she left the Zoo life to run a Children's Farm in North London but after a few years, decide to return to exotic animals, relocating to Costa Rica for 7 months to research Toucans and help with Sloth research.
When she returned to England, she made her way back to Zookeeping, and became a Carnivore Keeper at Shepreth Wildlife Park, where she stayed for nearly 5 years.
During this time, she founded the Keeper Educational Exchange Programme (or KEEP), a not-for-profit organisation that enables Zookeepers from across the UK and beyond to learn from each other through visiting other collections. She has presented on the programme at the ABWAK Symposium and the BIAZA Annual Conference and the organisation is honoured to be BIAZA Endorsed and sponsored by Birdworld, in Surrey.
In 2023, seeking a creative outlet, Alice launched the animal-comedy podcast: "Asshole Animals with Alice", that examines animal behaviour in a humorous fashion, with the help of experts across the world. In the initial months of her podcast, she was accompanied by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing, Jungle Jordan, Bertie Gregory and aims to continue talking to hilarious experts about animals with a bad reputation.
Alice was also shortlisted for BIAZA's "Woman of the Year" award in 2023.
