Swazzi is a specialist in written and visual communications—a writer, designer, editor, teacher, and entrepreneur, as well as a photographer specializing in portraits and travel photography. Her words and images have appeared in various print and online projects, as well as in The Miami Herald, Mexico Edition, and Atención San Miguel. 

After leading the digital graphics department at a major advertising agency and working with award-winning design firms for 10 years, she moved back to her childhood home in Mexico, where she remodeled five houses, designed and built two from scratch, and created two hospitality businesses, a café (also from scratch), and a community website, among various other creative projects.

In past lives, she’s been a teacher (of English, composition, and French), a silversmith, and a volunteer lion tamer. Most notably, Swazzi came out of the advertising industry relatively unscathed and survived a year teaching disgruntled teenagers at a bicultural high school in Mexico. (After that, working with lions was a breeze.)