I am a book­binder and book con­ser­va­tor in Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia. I stud­ied at the North Ben­net Street School, a two-year, full-time pro­gram that pro­vides hands-on train­ing in his­tor­i­cal bind­ing struc­tures and book con­ser­va­tion. I have also earned a Mas­ters in Library and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence from San Jose State Uni­ver­sity, with a con­cen­tra­tion in archival studies.

In addi­tion to my pri­vate work, I am a book con­ser­va­tor at the UC Berke­ley Library and a book­bind­ing instruc­tor at the San Fran­cisco Cen­ter for the Book. I make announce­ments about upcom­ing classes here.

I have worked in book­stores for most of my life, get­ting my start when I was eleven at a book­store named Fahren­heit 451 in Laguna Beach, Cal­i­for­nia. After grad­u­at­ing from Ober­lin Col­lege, I man­aged Quimby’s Book­store, a unique book­store in Chicago that boasts a broad selec­tion of self-published and obscure printed items. When I first moved back to Cal­i­for­nia, I had an all-too-brief stint work­ing in the rare book room at the famous Moe’s Books in Berke­ley before mov­ing on to the Library at UC Berkeley.

Affil­i­a­tions
The Amer­i­can Insti­tute for Con­ser­va­tion of His­toric and Artis­tic Works
The Guild of Book Work­ers
The Hand Book­binders of California