While Monica could be defined as serial dabbler, she prefers to be defined as a curious polymath. With experience ranging from floral design to data analysis, anthropology to salamander research, AI in cardiology to futurism, and UX design to evolutionary biology, her background is varied indeed. And while she’s spent the last eight years in corporate America, she wants to get back to her hands-on creative roots in floral design.
Her experience ranges from hands-on design, buying and wholesale, to client management and full event design. She has worked in New York, Minneapolis, and Madison, and her floral work has been featured on Buzzfeed, Green Wedding Shoes, Style Me Pretty, and in Minnesota Bride Magazine and Wisconsin Bride Magazine
Monica has lived at exactly 16 addresses in six states, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, Washington, New York, and Pennsylvania, since she left for college at the tender age of 17. Finally accepting her plight as a midwestern girl, she doesn’t plan on moving ever. again.
Outside of work, you can find her trying to keep a coral reef in a tiny glass box, talking about antimicrobial resistance, collating (and cooking from) her 150 cookbooks, and wrangling her matching tuxedo cats, chihuahua, plants, and marine aquaria in a 1,000-square-foot apartment.
She only wears black.