Lola is a mother, teacher, artist, and yogini who relocated with her family to Ashland, Oregon from Brooklyn, New York in 2013. She worked as a head teacher at a Waldorf/Montessori inspired preschool in downtown Jacksonville, while teaching kids' art classes at the Ashland Art Center, and substitute teaching for Children's World Montessori. Lola has experience in New York City preschools and elementary programs through second grade. She holds teaching certificates in the states of New York and Oregon.

She has a BFA in Illustration (focusing on children's books) from Savannah College of Art and Design, in Savannah, GA, and a Masters in Early Childhood Education from Hunter College in New York City. Through extensive work and learning in NYC fast-paced environments, she has polished her skills in multi-tasking, organization, patience, and utilizing art and crafts to motivate learning.

Lola's primary interests revolve around the arts and crafts: hand and machine sewing, knitting, felting, quilting, embroidery, bookbinding, collaging, watercolor, pottery, and fancy dip pen calligraphy. She also enjoys doing and teaching yoga (to adults and children), meditation/mindfulness, lifting weights, water skiing, hiking, playing the flute, traveling, cooking Thai and Indian, baking, and other culinary explorations. Of course she loves hanging with her little girls: Moxie Blaze (10) and Hendrix Belle (4).