Anne is the Founding Director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (est 2000), a New Orleans based non profit supporting communities adjacent to refineries. Born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana she knows many people who made their fortunes from the oil industry and saw sixteen year olds at her high school driving fancy cars bought with oil money. She began her organizing career in Togo, West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer, learned about the oil industry’s destruction in Nigeria and spent six years working on Nigerian issues. Although she loved the work in West Africa, she returned to Louisiana to protect her home state from Big Oil. Anne says she has seen the wealth and the poverty created by oil, and the goal of her life is to end its use. She received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leader Award and the Tides Foundation Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Public Advocacy. Anne has a Masters from Tulane and two adorable, wonderful children, ages 5 and 7.