born 1966, grew up in Cologne, Munich, Wolfsburg,  Detroit and San Francisco. She recieved her education at Cranbrook/Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, USA), Stanford University (Palo Alto, USA) and Art Center College of Design/Europe (Montreux, Schweiz), where she graduated in 1992. A selfemployed graphic designer since 1993, she specialized in exhibition graphics and founded cliff house Grafik Design in Wiesbaden in April 2001.