Biography

Claudia’s artwork has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (Washington DC), the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (London), and the National Arts Club (New York). Her hospice project Thoughts in Passing was featured in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and San Francisco Chronicle and has been shared in museums, hospitals, universities, and high schools across the US and UK. The Forgotten Teachers, an illustrated book for adults telling a surreal science-meets-myth origin story, will be published by Unruly/Enchanted Lion Books at the end of 2024.

As co-founder and head of design at Wayfinder, Claudia led the development of seven years of experiential curriculum to support young people to build lives of purpose and belonging. Incubated at Stanford University’s Design School, Wayfinder now serves >1,000,000 students around the world. She has also designed and taught workshops on purpose at organisations including Stanford University, Google, Facebook and the Chan Zuckerburg Initiative.

Claudia holds a BA in Philosophy & Psychology from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Social Anthropology from University College London. She lives next to the woods in the big city of London with her partner, twin boys and dog.