Founder and Director

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Anne is married to their wife, Allyson, and they have two young kids. Their family has moved from Napa, California to Durham, North Carolina and most recently to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Anne is the Founder and Director of Rainbow Collective for Change (RCC) – a grassroots organization that uses human centered design to develop initiatives and programs aiming to build support, safety, and connection for LGBTQIA+ families. Anne believes in the power of community and stories! Many of RCC’s initiatives utilize diverse children’s books to help educators and parents/caregivers have conversations with their children about gender, diverse families, race, social and racial justice, and speaking up against unfairness.

Prior to moving to Durham, Anne co-founded and directed the Rainbow Action Network of Napa Valley (RAN). For RAN, they led human centered design community work to build support, safety, and connection for LGBTQ families and efforts to engage families in anti-racist education and advocacy.  Anne saw a need for continuing and building on that work in North Carolina and is now establishing a Minnesota chapter, in part to support LGBTQIA+ families like hers that are moving to Minnesota to seek safety and refuge.

Anne has 20+ years of program and curriculum development, coordination and management, and research and evaluation experience. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Master of Public Health degree at UCLA. Her career has always focused on prevention of mental illness, substance abuse, and suicide. Anne’s passion for LGBTQ and Gender Inclusion work is fueled by her two children, the children of her close friends, and her personal experience as a queer parent navigating a culture and systems that are not LGBTQ and Gender Inclusive.