About me:
Born in 1990 to a British mother and a Maltese father, Alice was raised for the majority of her life in Surrey's Woking.Her passion for comedy growing up led her to participate in acting classes at the Guildford School of Acting and Italia Conti, and writing the school plays as she
got older.
Alice's dream was to write comedy and be a performer, but another ambition was fulfilled when she started volunteering at a
Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while going to University.
From then on, Alice was captivated by animal care and strived to pursue that career instead.
Alice began her career in Zookeeping in 2014 at ZSL London Zoo where she was involved with 3 different animal departments.
In 2015, she departed from the Zoo life to
manage a Children's Farm in North London but after a few years, decide to go back to exotic animals,
moving to Costa Rica for 7 months to research Toucans
and help with Sloth research.
When she came back to England, she made her way back to Zookeeping, and became a Carnivore Keeper at Shepreth Wildlife Park,
where she remained 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 learn from each other through visiting other collections.
She has spoken about 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, searching for a creative outlet, Alice created the animal-comedy podcast: "Asshole Animals with Alice", that explores animal behaviour in a comedic 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.