Ann grew up hiking and skiing the backyard mountains of North Vancouver BC, exploring the parks of urban Seattle and cycling the pavement of ultra-urban Los Angeles. A University of Washington art graduate, she started her career in advertising and ultimately worked as a product marketer, event planner and business development manager for Intel Corp and Microsoft. When her first child began to run, her family sought open spaces and discovered life on Bainbridge Island. Ann sought to align her new vocational reality with what Bainbridge and the outdoors had to offer. She and a friend (also a former Parks Foundation board member) formed a nonprofit in 2010 and launched the Bainbridge Island Turkey Trot, an annual fun run benefitting local food bank Helpline House, drawing over 1,000 runners each Thanksgiving. Ann also served as treasurer of Wilkes Elementary School site council. She is an avid trail runner and enjoys Bainbridge parks, trails and open spaces daily. She runs regularly with her dog, Sam, her husband, Mike, her son, Will, and daughter, Evelyn, and admires how the kids now outpace the adult humans. Ann and her family love to vacation together and explore outdoor spaces, the favorite parts being mountain hikes preceding lake dives. She uses any leftover free time to read cookbooks, play the piano, grow flowers and follow her kids through the Grand Forest.