By the age of five she was setting up experiments to test on her sister and using dolls as crash test dummies. Luckily, her parents always caught her just before her little sister took a ride down a laundry chute or was the subject of an 'around-the-world' attempt on the playground swings.
After graduating from San Francisco State and travelling the world, Kari began her career as an artist, working in sculpture and painting and holding successful exhibitions at some of San Francisco's leading galleries. 'Artist' was only one of many hats she wore while searching for her place in the world. Her sculpting skills and love for odd jobs soon led her into the field of model-making and toy-prototyping, which led to a job with Jamie Hyneman at M5 Industries.
It was at M5 that Kari got her first big break on Mythbusters. During the 'vacuum toilet' segment of one of the first episodes (which looked at whether a person could get sucked into an aeroplane toilet), Jamie needed a 3-D scan of someone's bottom, and Kari was in the right place at the right time. The rest is history, although we'd be remiss if we overlooked Kari's former job experience as a secret martini shopper, rose delivery driver and store mannequin to fool shoplifters! Who knew that a degree in film and sculpture would actually lead to a real-life career one day?
Now Kari works with the Mythbusters team, using science and Yankee ingenuity to solve the mysteries of today's most compelling urban legends.
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