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Brought into the world in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew up for the majority of her life in Surrey's Woking. Her passion for comedy growing up saw her to attend acting classes at Italia Conti and zookeeper the Guildford School of Acting, and writing the school plays as she got older.

Alice's dream 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 hooked on animal care and worked to take that path instead.

Alice began 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, decide to return to exotic animals, moving to Costa Rica for 7 months to research Toucans and assist in Sloth research.

When she returned to England, she returned to Zookeeping, and zookeeper 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 enables Zookeepers from across the UK and beyond to gain knowledge from each other through spending time at 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, zookeeper in Surrey.

In 2023, searching for zookeeper a creative outlet, Alice launched 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 joined by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, zookeeper 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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