User talk:VanessaBradway7

Brought into the world in 1990 to a British mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew up for the majority of her life in Woking, Surrey. Her love of comedy growing up led her to attend acting classes at Italia Conti and the Guildford School of Acting, and zookeeper writing the school plays as she got older.

Alice's dream was to be a performer and write comedy, but another ambition was fulfilled when she began volunteering at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in 2011, while attending University. From then on, Alice was captivated by animal care and zookeeper strived to take that path instead.

Alice began her Zookeeping journey in 2014 at ZSL London Zoo where she worked on 3 different animal departments. In 2015, she departed from the Zoo life to manage a Children's Farm in North London but after a few years, chose to return to exotic animals, relocating to Costa Rica for 7 months to research Toucans and assist in Sloth research.

When she returned to England, zookeeper she made her way back to Zookeeping, and became a Carnivore Keeper at Shepreth Wildlife Park, zookeeper where she remained for nearly 5 years.

During this time, she established the Keeper Educational Exchange Programme (or KEEP), a not-for-profit organisation that enables Zookeepers from across the UK and beyond to gain knowledge from each other through visiting other collections. She has presented on the programme at the ABWAK Symposium and zookeeper the BIAZA Annual Conference and the organisation is proud to be BIAZA Endorsed and sponsored by Birdworld, in Surrey.

In 2023, seeking a creative outlet, Alice created the animal-comedy podcast: "Asshole Animals with Alice", zookeeper that examines animal behaviour in a comedic fashion, with the help of experts across the world. In the first few months of her podcast, zookeeper she was accompanied by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing, Jungle Jordan, Bertie Gregory and hopes to continue interviewing hilarious experts about animals with a bad reputation.

Alice was also shortlisted for BIAZA's "Woman of the Year" award in 2023.

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