In her role as AIR Program Administrator, Anna helps oversee all AIR's centers and programs, coordinate and administer the Water, Environmental, and Energy Solutions initiative and Strategic Initiative funding, manage research initiatives, and supports AIR operations as needed. She was previously the Research and Outreach Manager at the Tumamoc Desert Laboratory before moving into her current role with AIR in the spring of 2022.

Her research expertise is Mesoamerican archaeology and Colonial-period pictorial manuscripts. Her current research interests combine pictorial manuscripts, ethnobotany, and the sociocultural dynamics of circulation and suppression of ethnobotanical knowledge in Colonial Mexico.