The Artist

Elder Emo. Single Parent. Weight Lifter. Nerd.

I’ve been baking professionally since age 18 (and now that I’m staring down the barrel of age 35 that feels like a really long time) and running Cascadia Kitchen since 2021.

Cascadia Kitchen is a cottage bakery, run out of my home kitchen turned cake shop. This business is a lifelong dream come true. Ever since my adolescence, I wanted only one thing- to live and breathe art. I dreamed of working for myself, creating magic with my hands, and building a life that allowed me to write my own rules and craft my own reality.

I trained at Le Cordon Bleu in California, and after graduating moved up to the Pacific Northwest. I took a leap of faith, leaving LA behind with an AA Degree in Patisserie and whatever else I could fit in my station wagon. I then spent over a decade working in large scale commercial bakeries and restaurants in North East Portland. That time was so important to my growth as a baker and artist, years of practice honing my skills as a cake artist and developing the stamina and capacity necessary to eventually run my own business,

Cascadia Kitchen was born out of necessity, when the pandemic forced me to acknowledge that I needed to better balance parenthood and my baking career. Working from home felt like an impossible dream, but here I am, going on five years later, creating the kind of cake art I’ve always dreamed of.