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• Born raised Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Currently living in Connecticut River Valley
• Self-taught artist, author, illustrator, designer,
creativity coach
• Marketing, Communications major, Stephens College, Columbia, MO.
• First NYC job CBS
• Ten years at Vera Industries in sales promotion/advertising, then sales/marketing, and design for Vera home furnishings division. First-ever female Executive Vice President to be named in Home Furnishings Industry
• Sixteen years living in Paris and Normandie, France
Traveled two years solo,
Married frenchman, Lived in Paris
In France, created comprehensive shopping center
graphics and identity programs with USA partner,
Karen Beckwith
• Speaks more than menu French
• Authored three friendly, fully illustrated guidebooks for
navigating France
• Designs and licenses french-inspired home related
products collection
• Founder of the York Butler Fund
• Collage artist, Exhibitions: Paris, Normandie, New York,
New England
• Creator of JillsBirds’nWords, a communication arts
studio
