Judy is an artist and designer working with textiles, metal, industrial materials, and tinkering with electronics. She received a Textiles Award from SFSU while earning a BA in Industrial Design. She learned tinkering from her father who was a machinist, and sewing from her mother as a family trade. She was born in the North Andes of Peru, and moved to New York in her teens. Now she lives in San Francisco and works at a prosthetic and orthotic lab as a designer and fabricator.

Judy has worked with several artist collaboratives, co-designing and fabricating large scale fire and metal sculptures for Burning Man that have been installed at various sites around the world. As member of the Flaming Lotus Girls, she worked on the Serpent Mother for Burning Man and Robodock, a Technology Festival in Amsterdam. Also with the Flaming Lotus Girls she assisted with the visual design, project management, and fabrication of Mutopia, as well as the installation at Burning Man. She was also a crew member of Fishbug, a large kinetic installation that consisted of fire effects, video projection, and a fabric woven interior.

She was a speaker at Digital Life Design 2009 and participant in 2011 conference in Munich, as an artist in the Bay Area. She also spoke Kinnernet 2010 in Israel.

Judy has developed projects and educational toys for Make magazine, and as an art and technology instructor she focuses on teaching workshops in Spanish. She has conducted and organized Make Play Day, the largest tinkering workshop at Maker Faire.

In 2009, at Lift & Fing Marseilles, and in 2010 at Lift Geneva, Judy
conducted tinkering workshops in which participants built electromechanical contraptions, which were then exhibited during the conference.

Her approach to teaching uses hands-on projects focusing on sketching, design, and model making. She is the co-founder of Teach Me To Make, an educational organization providing hands-on art and technology workshops. At the moment, she is earning her residency at the Tinkering Zone at the Exploratorium Museum of Science and Perception.

Her latest work, "Brain on Energy", was in the Knowledge Hacking
show presented by the Worth Ryder Gallery in the Art Department at UC
Berkeley. Knowledge Hacking is an experimental research and exhibition
project by artists and thinkers in the Bay Area community working
with artists, scientists, technologists, and researchers at the
University of California jointly sponsored with the Zero1 Festival.