Brought into the world in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew up for most of her li... View MoreBrought into the world in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew up for most of her life in Surrey's Woking.
Her passion for comedy growing up led her to attend acting classes
at the Guildford School of Acting and Italia Conti, and writing the school plays as she got older.
Alice's aspiration was to be a performer
and write comedy, but another dream was fulfilled 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 worked to take that path instead.
Alice started her Zookeeping journey in 2014 at London Zoo
ZSL where she worked on 3 different animal departments.
In 2015, she departed from the Zoo life to run 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
zookeeper assist in Sloth research.
When she returned to England, zookeeper 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 founded the Keeper Educational Exchange Programme (or KEEP), a
non-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,
searching for a creative outlet, Alice created the
animal-comedy podcast: "Asshole Animals with Alice", that explores animal behaviour in a humorous fashion, with the help of experts across the world.
In the first few months of her podcast, she was joined by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing, Jungle Jordan, Bertie Gregory
and zookeeper hopes to continue interviewing hilarious experts about animals with a
bad reputation.
Alice was also shortlisted for BIAZA's "Woman of the Year"
award in 2023.
