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Ann (she/her/hers) earned her doctorate in international feminist theologies from the San Francisco Theological Seminary, which is part of the Graduate Theological Union at the University of California-Berkeley.  She previously earned a Masters in Divinity (M.Div.), with a focus on Latin American Liberation Theologies from Yale University and her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College after also having studied at Oberlin College & Music Conservatory.

Ann extended her study of religious diversity to other forms of cultural diversity, completing a certificate program in Intercultural Communication in 2000.  In 2014 she was certified as a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory.  In 2019 she became a Qualified Facilitator of the Global Competence Certificate. Most recently, she completed a Diploma in Media Studies.

Prior to joining the CGEE-Mexico staff in 1993, Ann worked as a campus minister at Penn State University and in a refugee camp in El Salvador during the revolution there.  Her experience also includes anti-war activism and volunteer work with HIV/AIDS patients, in homeless shelters, battered women’s shelters, and a rape crisis center.

Ann's primary academic interests are in the areas of religion and social change, gender studies, intercultural communication, and experiential education.  She enjoys hiking, reading, singing, playing with her black lab, and participating in community organizations that empower women. Ann is proudly a dual citizen of Mexico and the U.S.A.

Ann is involved in the overall administration and curriculum development for the CGEE-Mexico site.  She also teaches courses in Intercultural Communication, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.  In the spring she teaches "Intercultural Communication," "Social Welfare: U.S.-Mexico Relations," and “Undocumented, Ecofeminist, and Queer: Contemporary Latin American Liberation Theologies."