Anna has her B.S. in Art Education and M.Ed in Integrated Art from Plymouth State University. Always enjoying teaching and working with children, Anna pursued a career that melded the two most meaningful areas of her life together: art and education. She loves living and working on the Seacoast and has a particular passion for creating opportunities for youth to develop meaningful relationships with local mentors, charities, organizations, and individual artists through art projects and programming. Most important to Anna is that young people have access to meaningful arts experiences. Over the past 15 years she has served on the board of Art-Speak and as a visual arts instructor at Little Harbour Elementary School in Portsmouth, Chair of the Department of Visual Arts for the Portsmouth Public Schools, and Director of Visual Arts Education at PMAC. She currently teaches visual arts at Portsmouth Middle School. Anna is the recipient of the 2015 NH Governor’s Art Awards in Art Education.