Anna grew up nowhere near the ocean, but somehow her first word was “fish” and she asked that her childhood bedroom be painted like a coral reef. So, this career path seems pretty fated. Anna has always been artistic and curious, and seamlessly blends her passion for inspiring scientific curiosity with the beauty of the natural world in her career as an underwater cinematographer.

Anna is an award-winning filmmaker, and her films have screened at festivals nationwide. Her work has been featured on the NOAA Ocean Exploration website, the Smithsonian’s blog, and The New York Times. She has also worked on projects with National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, Netflix, the Travel Channel, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and on several films that have screened at Sundance and Cannes Film Festival.

In 2022, Anna sailed on the NOAA vessel Okeanos Explorer, where she crafted compelling science videos about deep-sea exploration in the Caribbean and along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. She has also worked aboard the exploration vessel Nautilus as an ROV video engineer, and filmed footage of deep sea exploration in Ocean Networks Canada’s undersea observatory off the coast of British Columbia. Her contributions to scientific knowledge earned her membership in the Explorers Club, an internationally recognized professional society dedicated to the advancement of scientific field research. Beyond ocean exploration and conservation, Anna’s interests extend to narratives of newly discovered life, coral scientists, slime mold emergence, meditation science, climate-conscious conservatives, microplastics, women in science, and the microbial wonders of a Superfund site in Butte, Montana.

Anna holds a master’s degree in science and natural history filmmaking from Montana State University and a B.A. in human ecology with a focus on science communication from the College of the Atlantic. She is also a PADI divemaster with over 300 logged dives. Anna has dived in locations worldwide, including the Azores, Mo'orea to film humpback whales, Mexico where she collected baseline census data on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, Thailand, and frequently documents marine life in California. After living in several different corners of the country, she has finally settled in Encinitas, California, where she dives, surfs, and documents the beauty of the underwater world as much as possible.