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Anna (she/her) joined CEA as a Research Associate in 2024. Anna’s interests include international climate finance, energy policy, public lands, and climate justice. She works across several practice areas within Philanthropic Services.

Prior to joining CEA, Anna worked on the Tracking the Field Team at Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA). At EGA, Anna entered and tagged thousands of environmental grants, analyzed field-wide trends, and identified funding gaps to increase diversity and transparency in grantmaking. She co-authored the report “Summary of Funding to Aquaculture & Fisheries, 2016−2021,” providing a detailed analysis of over $500 million in aquaculture and fisheries grants. Before working at EGA, Anna served as a Research Delegate to COP27, reporting on the issue of Loss and Damage Finance for the NGO Friends in Village Development Bangladesh. In 2020, Sierra Club published a report Anna researched and authored titled “Montana’s Wind Energy: An Economic Analysis.”

As an Enterprise Holding Scholar, Anna earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis in 2023, with dual majors in Organization and Strategic Management and Germanic Language and Literature. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Joseph Towle Organizational Leadership Prize by her professors.

Anna’s childhood in the Gallatin Valley of Montana reminds her to get dirt under her feet and wind in her hair, daily.