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Born in 1990 to a British mother and a Maltese father, Alice was raised for the majority of her life in Woking, Surrey. Her love of comedy during her youth 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 dream was realised when she started volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while going to University. From then on, Alice was hooked on animal care and strived to pursue that career instead.

Alice began 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, chose to go back to exotic animals, relocating to Costa Rica for 7 months to study Toucans and help with Sloth research.

When she returned to England, she made her way back to Zookeeping, and took on the role of a Carnivore Keeper at Shepreth Wildlife Park, where she remained for nearly 5 years.

During this time, she founded 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 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 comedic fashion, with the help of experts across the world. In the first few months of her podcast, she was accompanied by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing, Jungle Jordan, zookeeper Bertie Gregory and hopes to continue interviewing hilarious experts about animals with a bad reputation.

Alice was also nominated for BIAZA's "Woman of the Year" award in 2023.

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