Anne joined the small dollar consumer lending and advocacy nonprofit, Exodus Lending, as Executive Director in early 2022 after serving on the board for four years. Anne is an experienced and passionate advocate for financial inclusion and economic justice. For the previous decade, she worked as the Financial Capability and Learning Director at Prepare + Prosper, another CBA member, designing and supporting financial coaching and inclusion programs. Before that she earned her master’s degree in public policy in 2010 from the Humphrey School at the University of Minnesota and ran an English school for immigrant and refugee adults. She is a member of the City of St. Paul Financial Empowerment Community Council and recently joined the inaugural Research Advisory Council of the Center for Responsible Lending's Julian Bond Institute.