ABOUT ME

Problem solver. Communication creator. Designer of experiences both large and small.

An award-winning strategic marketing and communications leader, with an outstanding ability to concept, create, and execute strategic and innovative multimedia programs that deliver business goals. Believes that collaboration, innovation, strategy, and creative vision drive outstanding communications, engage constituents, and motivate action.

I helped recreate a mastodon. I’ve been skydiving above the Hoover Dam. I've attended over 80 weddings. I've eaten Thanksgiving dinner on a submarine. I once spent Christmas Day with the Bora tribe in the Amazon jungle carrying around a baby sloth. If you need a laugh, I do improv and stand-up in the greater Chicago area. I grew up on a strawberry farm in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and consequently retain a very high tolerance for snow but a very low tolerance for sub-par strawberries. My pronouns are she/her. My name is pronounced AN-nuh, but AH-nuh sounds so pretty that I probably won’t correct you.

I attended the University of Michigan majoring in Linguistics and Creative Writing. I graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College Chicago with a B.F.A. in Graphic Design.

TOOLS:

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, After Effects, Premiere, Character Animator, Lightroom); Final Cut Pro; Google Suite; Microsoft Office Suite; PowerPoint; Keynote; Figma; HTML5; CSS; CMS (Wordpress, Drupal); Squarespace; Google Adwords & Analytics; Social Media (Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok); Video & DSLR camera operation; Notion; Asana; Productive; Monday; Slack; Dropbox; Google Drive

AWARDS:

University of Chicago

  • Campus Communicators Best-in-class Award: Internal Communications (2020)

Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)

  • Bronze Anvil Award: HAIL Scholarship Print Brochure (2017)

  • Bronze Anvil Award: Hail Scholarship Direct Mail (2017)

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)

  • Gold Award, Excellence in Design: Individual Poster (2015)

  • Gold Award: Best Website (2015)

  • Bronze Award: Best View Book (2015)

CURRENT AND PAST CLIENTS INCLUDE:

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PRAISE:

“Anna is ready to go out of the box. We could have her do anything!”

-Alan Sitomer, Client

“Anna is extremely creative, and very open to new ideas and challenges. She has never once said, ‘I can’t do that’ or ‘I don’t know how to do that.’”

-Jaime Sharer, U-M Supervisor

“In the two years that she has worked for me she has been instrumental in improving the products my company offers and in increasing the bottom line profit of the company. I have often left Anna in charge of running my company in my absence for weeks at a time and, as usual, she excelled in the task. During the past 15 years that my business has been in existence I have, at one time or another, employed over 50 different people. Anna stands out as the most effective and if I had an award for best employee ever, Anna would be the winner of it.”

-Bill Thum, owner of Superior Productions