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Brought into the world in 1990 to a UK mother and a Maltese father, Alice grew up for most of her life in Surrey's Woking. Her passion - https://castbox.fm/episode/Ep.-40--Collaborating-for-Better-Human-and-Animal-Wellbeing-with-Alice-Vassalo-id2679202-id584871351?country=us for comedy during her youth led her to participate - https://www.keeperexchange.org/other-opportunities in acting classes at the Guildford School of Acting and Italia Conti, and authoring - https://www.keeperexchange.org/jobs-listing the school plays as she got older.

Alice's aspiration was to write comedy and be a performer, but another dream 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 worked to take that path instead.

Alice started her career in Zookeeping in 2014 at ZSL London Zoo - https://www.keeperexchange.org/other-opportunities where she worked on 3 different animal departments. In 2015, she left the Zoo life to manage a Children's Farm - https://www.keeperexchange.org/about-us-2 in North London - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/keeper-educational-exchange-programme_keep-placement-success-holly-from-sealife-activity-7271609694186573824-iVSq but after a few years, decide to return to exotic animals, relocating - https://www.facebook.com/ZooKEEPX/ to Costa Rica - https://castbox.fm/episode/Ep.-40--Collaborating-for-Better-Human-and-Animal-Wellbeing-with-Alice-Vassalo-id2679202-id584871351?country=us for 7 months to research Toucans and assist in Sloth research.

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During this time, she founded the Keeper Educational Exchange Programme (or KEEP), a non-profit organisation that allows Zookeepers from across the UK and beyond to learn from each other through spending time at other collections. She has presented on the programme at the ABWAK Symposium and the BIAZA Annual Conference and the organisation is proud to be BIAZA Endorsed - https://www.keeperexchange.org/get-involved and sponsored by Birdworld, in Surrey.

In 2023, seeking a creative - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/keeper-educational-exchange-programme_keep-placement-success-holly-from-sealife-activity-7271609694186573824-iVSq outlet, Alice created the animal-comedy - https://castbox.fm/episode/Ep.-40--Collaborating-for-Better-Human-and-Animal-Wellbeing-with-Alice-Vassalo-id2679202-id584871351?country=us podcast: "Asshole Animals with Alice", that explores animal behaviour in a comedic fashion, with the help of experts across the world. In the first few months of her podcast, zookeeper - https://ratemywifey.com/author/helenamacke/ she was accompanied by nature creatives such as Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin, Lucy Lapwing, Jungle Jordan, zookeeper - https://historydb.date/wiki/User:LeonardoWetter Bertie Gregory and hopes to continue interviewing hilarious experts about animals with a bad reputation - https://www.alicevassallo.co.uk/about.

Alice was also shortlisted for BIAZA's - https://wildenrichment.podbean.com/e/ep-40-collaborating-for-better-human-and-animal-wellbeing-with-alice-vassalo/ "Woman of the Year" award in 2023.

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