Ann graduated from the University of Arizona with a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology in 1985.  She left for Anchorage and Fairbanks, AK and spent the next several years there flying in and out of Native communities delivering communication services, worked at Anchorage School District, and in private practice.  In 2000, she moved back to the state of MT and began working for Eastern Yellowstone Cooperative in Billings.  She has worked for MAEC since 2006.