Anna works with the Gender Equality team at GHV, where she supports the Women’s Economic Empowerment team in the Gender Equality Division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Within her portfolio, Anna focuses on data and evidence and strategy, planning, and management.

Anna’s work prioritizes centering women as experts in their own lives. With nearly 15 years working in women’s rights, gender violence, reproductive justice, economic empowerment, and health equity, she specializes in mixed methods and community-based participatory research, evidence translation, strategy building, and partnership development.

Prior to GHV, Anna was a consultant at Rabin Martin, working with clients on global health and women’s rights. Anna previously served as Program Officer at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health’s Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program. She has also worked with the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health & Human Rights in Cameroon and served as a Global Health Corps Fellow with Population Council in Zambia. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals and TIME Magazine.

Anna has a Master’s of Science in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, and a Bachelor’s of Arts from Bates College in Women and Gender Studies. While her work has spanned over 8 countries, she currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Outside of work, she can be found at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens or watching women’s basketball and cheering on her beloved New York Liberty.

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Areas of Expertise:

• Monitoring, learning, and evaluation & knowledge management

• Mixed-methods and community-based participatory research

• Project management and process development

• Strategy development and implementation

• Grant development and management

• Women’s health and economic opportunity

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