Alicia was born in 1979 and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She earned her BA in English Literature and Spanish from the University of Oregon in Eugene, during which time she wandered/studied in Mexico, Spain, Guatemala, and Cuba.  After graduation, she returned to the Bay Area and worked in social services, and traveled to Costa Rica to work in a state-run orphanage.  She has been painting full-time since 2005.  Her work is exhibited regularly throughout the United States, most recently at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, Altered Esthetics Gallery in Minneapolis, and Bluespace in San Francisco.  She was recently awarded an Honorarium from the City of Berkeley and a grant from the George Sugarman Foundation to continue her Culture Corset series.