I’ve been a professional photographer for 15 years, I started with weddings, moved on to portraits and lifestyle and some editorial, and eventually found my passion for not just taking photos but styling the whole shoot as well.

I’ve always loved hunting for treasures at garage sales, thrift stores, free junk piles … you name it. One woman’s junk has always been my treasure. Thus the pile of vintage clothing began to grow and grow.

5 years ago I started Encourage Vintage in an attempt to follow that passion for styling and sourcing beautiful vintage clothes.

What I didn’t anticipate is how selling and making clothing would allow me special connections to other fashion lovers and that has been my JOY the past three years.

Encourage Vintage is my love letter to old and special things and to the others out there who feel that same spark when they pass a garage sale or a thrift store.

ANTI RACISM manifesto

I am (and thus my business is) committed to amplifying and lifting up BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and standing up for Black lives - denouncing racism in all forms wherever I see it and in my own life.

I am committed to divesting from my own white privilege and this is something I am actively figuring out.

I acknowledge and honor the indigenous people whose land that I live on in the SF Bay Area - the Ohlone Native American tribe.

Thank you for holding me accountable and if there is any way that I can do better please reach out to me and let me know.