While her passion for organizing and community-building has focused largely on LGBTQ issues, Anna believes that just as inequalities are interconnected, justice-minded people must connect with each other to solve the structural bases of oppression. Currently an Adjunct Instructor in Sociology at SUNY Potsdam, Anna is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is writing a dissertation that analyzes the ways that the marriage equality movement in California changed its infrastructures, messages, strategies, tactics, and collective identities after the passage of Proposition 8 temporarily reversed the rights of same-sex couples to marriage. Her dissertation research is informed by her activism in California where she co-founded and served on the executive committee of the Santa Barbara Equality Project, was a Chapter Leader for Marriage Equality USA, and a member of the Grant-making Committee for the Fund for Santa Barbara. Anna is constantly striving to balance academics and activism as well as being a good partner and a mother to many human and furry creatures. In her free time (ha) Anna likes to travel and enjoy Mother Nature.