Emily Burke
Em is the Brand Trainer for both of the beautiful North American factories! She started bustin' grooves & droppin' bombs back in 2007, in the Victoria shop and has enjoyed people telling her “You smell amazing!” ever since! She’s now moved over to Manufacturing, educating all the amazing Manufacturing employees on all things LUSH and holding non-stop training! When ... Read More...
Vanessa Lamont
Also known as Miss V, Vanessa has brought her love of coffee, dancing, and bawdy sense of humor to a variety of roles at LUSH. She started working her moves on the shop floor in Victoria, BC, and crossed the ocean to Vancouver to take the reins as the Customer Care manager. From there her witty wordplay landed her the dream job of LUSH Times Editor. She also had ... Read More...
Julia Hamfelt
Julia, or Lazer Wolf as she's more commonly known around LUSH HQ, is the LUSH Times Editor and manager of the LUSH Copy Team. Her LUSH roots began four years ago at the Victoria, BC shop as a Bath Bomb detonating, bubble blowing, dancing machine. She now spends her days collaborating with fellow writers and designers to create fresh LUSH Times editions, web copy ... Read More...
Loranda Vazquez
Loranda's LUSH story begins fresh out of university. She interned for a magazine where she realized her love of writing for a living and hatred of wearing nylons. When her internship ended, Loranda's father-in-law gave her the following advice: "Find a company that you love, and find out how to do what you love for that company".
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Katy Cobb
Katy’s LUSH journey began in 2009 at the Robson Street store. Here, she abandoned her ego, donned a Sex Bomb costume and spread LUSH love through the streets of Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Since then, Katy’s worked in LUSH manufacturing as a manager-in-training in the Gifts department and has most recently joined the Copy team where she’s excited to s... Read More...
Denise Slacke
Denise began working for LUSH in June 2011 when she moved to New York to escape the unbearably cold summer months in Ireland. What started out as a three month fling quickly grew into something much bigger and after a brief return to the Emerald Isle she came running back to her LUSH home in NYC! She currently holds the title of Senior Keyholder with her Union Squar... Read More...
Ryan Trafananko
Ryan Trafananko is the most recent addition to the ever evolving LUSH Copy team. In July of 2011, after four years of toil, Ryan completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing from UBC Okanagan. During his time at UBC, Ryan was active in the writing and arts community. Ryan was a member of ARTSCO Youth Arts Council and organized and participated in numerous... Read More...
Shama Alexander
Shama Alexander is the Green Officer for LUSH North America. She works throughout the business from our retail shops, Manufacturing, Design, Finance, Mail Order - and more, to assess our practices and help us to create the most sustainable practices for our business, and to ensure that the LUSH Life is as green and friendly to the earth.
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Erin Brady
Most days in LUSH’s NYC Press Office, you can find Erin buried in a pile of beauty magazines, scrolling through blogs or meeting with various editors and influencers…ah, the life of a glamorous PR girl (OK, not really, but one can dream!) Erin brings her knowledge of skincare, bodycare and makeup to LUSH from working at PR agencies for the past eight years on dermat... Read More...
Aimee O'Donnell Saunders
In the Kingston Market Place, in the autumn of 1999, Aimee O’Donnell Saunders became hooked on the idea of LUSH, on cosmetics made FRESH, out of beautiful, active ingredients. The products have been a part of her life (and bathroom) ever since. As luck would have it, Aimee got a temporary job at the Powell Street shop in San Francisco in November 2004. An... Read More...
Courtney McGeever
Courtney stumbled across a lovely soap shop called LUSH while visiting Covet Garden during the summer of 1999 and fell in love. Two years ago she joined the LUSH family as part of the North American Public Relations team. She spends her days spreading the LUSH love handling the Canadian Media Relations, working with top Canadian magazines, newspapers, television sho... Read More...
Mandy Kirschner
Mandy works in the Press Office in New York and handles US online media relations. Before joining LUSH, she did a lot of other stuff in the beauty industry, like writing, editing and even a marketing gig. When she’s not working with bloggers to convince them of the awesomeness of LUSH, you’ll find her with her husband and their dog, Waldo, who happens to be the snug... Read More...
Brynn Diaz
Known as Brynn, the one and the only, just finished her tenth holiday with LUSH North America and never tires of showing kids a Bath Bomb fizz for the first time when she is working in the shops. She opened the Santa Monica shop in 2003 as an enthusiastic, environmentally and ethically aware university graduate, with a love of very old books, writing, surfing, and y... Read More...
Reggie Tika
Reggie is the man. Based in LUSH Manufacturing in Vancouver, BC he makes products to make you smell fine and your skin smooth. When he's not making products with love, he's spreading Good Karma and working behind the scenes helping create our community gardens, LUSH Bikes and supporting over 50 organizations with donations, volunteering, recycling, and getting unuse... Read More...
Shelley MacEachern
Shelley MacEachern was born in Langley, BC, a while ago, surrounded by dogs, cats, horses, chickens, goats, rabbits and guinea pigs. Shelley has worked at LUSH since 2005 in various capacities, Gift wrapper, Green officer, and Distribution MIT. She loves to travel and see new places, especially by bike, so green, so clean, so cheap! She has completed several triathl... Read More...