As a lawyer in private practice for several years, Ann was actively involved in pro bono work helping people with disabilities navigate the legal system. Ann also assisted with the appeal of a Capital Punishment conviction. Ann eventually retired from the practice of law and, in 2009, was accepted to Stanford’s Master of Liberal Arts program where she rediscovered her love of studying literature.
Wanting to delve more deeply into her literary studies, in 2016, Ann enrolled in Claremont Graduate University’s PhD program in English. Since that time, Ann has presented her research on Queen Victoria in Ulysses at two International James Joyce Symposiums and, in 2019, Ann published an article in the James Joyce Quarterly, “Conjuring the Shades of Queen Victoria in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” In her dissertation, Ann studied the evolution of Queen Victoria as a modern character in the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey.
Since 2019, Ann has been a Trustee with the Nueva School, a Bay Area preK-12 independent school. In her governance work, Ann focuses on supporting the Humanities and providing equitable access to education. For 13 years, Ann was a Trustee on the Board of the Avalon Academy, a K-12 school which provides access to education for students with movement disorders. In 2022, with her husband Jason, Ann cofounded the Greenbridge Family Foundation which supports a broad range of philanthropic efforts.
Ann earned a BA from the College of the Holy Cross, a JD from Catholic University, an MLA from Stanford University and PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University.
Ann joined CGU’s Board in 2025.