Joining the team around 2014, Eva is one of our longest standing true advocates. She originally came to Surface because we had the only sun care brand that didn't make her sensitive skin breakout due to our hypoallergenic formulas and loved how all of our products are reef safe. Surface has seen her grow in so many fields from surfing, to modeling, and to her passion for advocating about mental health.

Being that Eva first started her surfing journey in Costa Rica at seven, she actually has some major roots there. Her mom is originally from Turrialba and to quote Eva “I have been going to Costa Rica since I was in the womb!” Hopefully that gives you some idea of how far those roots go. When talking with Eva about Costa Rica, you won’t hear her stop saying how grateful and blessed she is to be able to have dual citizenship (makes going through customs a lot easier). Having majority of her family live there she has been immersed in the culture whether it has been going to the markets everyday to pick up fresh produce, flattening tortillas with her grandma on the porch, to seeing howler monkeys on her walk to go surf. If you ever find yourself in Costa Rica make sure to go catch Eva ripping at Pavones.

Eva is a well rounded individual when it comes to her resume. She’s a pro surfer, model, and house painter (which people find hard to believe). At her dad’s painting company she does all the grunt work and she loves all of it! From taping off every door and window in a big house for hours to chipping paint off every base board. For some reason in that environment she finds her zen; it also helps that if the waves are good she can skip work to surf and not worry about getting fired. As most of you know she’s a model as well as a sponsored surfer. She says there’s nothing like being able to go on these amazing trips to beautiful places with her friends all while making a career. She loves modeling for the creative side and how it is a constant learning process of seeing how her body language will transfer through a camera. Surfing is a complete zeroing in mode for her and another learning process as well because she wants to experience all different types of boards and fins. In the future we can see Eva doing what she does best which is having fun surfing “preferably in warm places”  but she is also currently in school to get her masters degree in psychology to become a sports psychologist.