Born in Boston, Anna moved to the small town of Stilwell, Kansas as a child. After attending a high school that could have been the setting for Friday Night Lights, she went to Harvard, where she did a lot of (very) amateur theater and received a degree in Arabic and medieval Islamic history, which seemed like a good idea at the time. She intended to go work for the State Department before remembering that she doesn’t do well in hot places. Instead, she taught fifth grade through Teach for America, worked at a non-profit focused on teacher leadership, and then — like all people with no idea what to do with their lives — went to grad school, earning a Master’s in International Environmental Policy from The Fletcher School at Tufts. Lured by the free food and in-office ping-pong tables, Anna then spent eight years in the tech industry, winding up as the Chief of Staff of a deep tech start-up. At some point in all that, she relocated to London to be closer to the rain, and there she happily remains.