Judy is an artist, and designer working with textiles, metal, industrial materials and electronics. She learned tinkering from her father and sewing as as a family trade, studied art and design, and is exploring wearable technology.

She received a Textiles Award from SFSU while earning a BA in Industrial Design. Her focus is on soft product design, smart fibers, and metal sculpture. As member of Flaming Lotus Girls, she worked on the Serpent Mother for Burning Man and the Robodock Art and Technology Festival in Amsterdam. This past year she assisted with the visual design, project management and fabrication of Mutopia. She was a speaker at Digital Life Design 2009 conference in Munich, she was invited to Kinnernet in Israel as artist in the field of Art and Technology. A crew member of the The Fire Blooms for the City of San Francisco. She collaborated on a new proposal for Burning Man for Chimera Sententia aka Fishbug. In 2010 she was a speaker and workshop organizer at at Lift Geneva as the co-founder of Teach me to make, an organization focused on teaching methods of tinkering electronics, mechanics, and design.

I was born in the North Andes of Peru, and moved to New York in my teens. Now I live in San Francisco as designer, metal artist and teacher.