Anna was born and raised in Mexico City, and in 2020 she moved to Victoria, BC to pursue her undergraduate degree in Sociology. Her academic interests within this field encompass access to education, immigration, and gender inequality.

Currently, she works as a research assistant at Borders In Globalization, where she is developing work on cross-border collaboration within the different continents worldwide. She also helps with data collection for the BIG Lab and Jean Monnet Database projects.