Pamina Traylor is a lecturer at the California College of Arts and Crafts. She received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, began studying glass at San Francisco State University, and received her M.F.A. in glass sculpture from Rochester Institute of Technology. In 1995, she was awarded a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America in New Jersey. She has taught workshops at UrbanGlass, Rochester Institute of Technology, the Parsons School of Design, and The Studio.