About me: Brought into the world in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew up for most of her life in Woking, Surrey. Her passion for comedy during her youth 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 aspiration was to be a performer and write comedy, but another ambition was fulfilled when she began volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while going to University.From then on, Alice was captivated by animal care and worked to pursue that career instead.Alice started her career in Zookeeping in 2014 at London Zoo ZSL where she was involved with 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 go back to exotic animals, moving to Costa Rica for 7 months to study Toucans and help with Sloth research.When she came back to England, she returned 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 allows Zookeepers from across the UK and beyond to learn 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 supported by Birdworld, in Surrey.In 2023, searching for a creative outlet, Alice created 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 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 shortlisted for BIAZA's "Woman of the Year" award in 2023.
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