Lamalani is a life-long Seattle resident and held the titles of Washington State Ms Leather 2008 and International Ms Leather 2009. Professionally, Lamalani makes hemp bondage rope with Twisted Monk. Lamalani started her sex-toy career at Babeland and spent nearly 10 years as a product buyer and sex educator. Lamalani has presented classes on various sex-positive and BDSM topics at Desire Leatherwomen’s conference, Queer Play Con, the Conservatory, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Mistress Shae’s Academy in Los Angeles, Portland Bad Girls, Tribal Fire, Lupercalia, New England Leather Association, MOB Boston, Southwest Leather Conference and offers private classes around the Puget Sound area. Lamalani was awarded the Pantheon Northwest Regional Award in 2010 and Leather Emerald Award in 2011. She is an enthusiastic practitioner of rope bondage, fire play and roughhousing. Lamalani relaxes by playing video games, visiting the ocean and riding her motorcycles.