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Born in 1990 to a British mother and a Maltese father, Alice was raised for most of her life in Surrey's Woking. Her passion for comedy during her youth saw her to attend 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 realised when she began volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while attending University. From then on, Alice was captivated by animal care and worked to take that path instead.

Alice started her career in Zookeeping 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 return to exotic animals, zookeeper relocating 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 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 non-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 honoured to be BIAZA Endorsed and supported by Birdworld, in Surrey.

In 2023, zookeeper searching for a creative outlet, Alice launched the animal-comedy podcast: "Asshole Animals with Alice", zookeeper 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 joined by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing, Jungle Jordan, Bertie Gregory and aims 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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