I was born in 1956 in Juneau, Alaska, a few years before Alaska became the 49th state.  My mother, Irene, is Tlingit Indian from the village of Hoonah, Alaska; my father, William, is Filipino American from Seattle, WA.  I was introduced to Alaskan Native art while in high school, when I produced my first carved cedar box.  During the next year, I met master Tlingit dancer and regalia-maker Harry K. Bremner, Sr., who invited me to join his touring dance troupe, the Mt. St. Elias Dancers from Yakutat, Alaska.  Around the same time, I met my future husband, Bill Hudson. 

After the birth of our first child, I began making custom clothing and hats for family and friends.  Hudson & I started decorating our house and furniture with Northwest Coast Indian art, teaching ourselves the intricacies of formline design along the way.  A few years later, I became interested in landscaping, and soon found myself the owner of Kahtahah Landscape Gardeners, a company which developed and maintained a lush, naturalized garden for Sealaska Corporation, one of Juneau's largest companies.

For the past ten years, I have focused most of my energies on artwork inspired by my Alaska Native heritage.  After apprenticing to master Chilkat weaver Jennie Thlunaut in 1986, I began teaching Chilkat weaving to local Native women and organizing yearly gatherings of the Shax'saani Keek' Weavers' Circle.  In 2003, I began my fifth Chilkat robe.

I also studied clothing design and metalsmithing at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, NM   I've made about 40 traditional Alaskan ceremonial robes, as well as numerous traditionally-inspired carvings, paintings, small weavings, and collages. Many of my pieces have won awards at various shows around the country.

I also spent four years working with the Naa Kahidi Native Theater, as costume & set designer, tour manager, stage manager, actress and singer/musician, touring the US, Canada, and Europe.  I wouldn't want to tour again, but I still love designing costumes as much as ever.

My husband, Bill Hudson, has collaborated with me on several large public art installations throughout Alaska.  We've also collaborated on a number of children's theater productions in Alaska and Colorado, as well as running our on-going art marketing business, Hudson Hudson Ltd.

My work is presently represented by Inuit Gallery in Vancouver, BC.