Growing up in Hangzhou, China before moving to the Chicago suburbs, Anne joined a modeling club in fourth grade building architectural models. When asked to construct the yard surrounding a little house, she found herself far more absorbed by the ground than the building.

Anne's work centers on the small and often overlooked beings as active drivers of design. Rather than treating ecology as something to be preserved and contained, she works in urban and infrastructural landscapes to create conditions for movement, habitat, and coexistence. A studio on periodical cicadas opened this preoccupation. Her thesis examined endangered dragonfly species in Illinois, tracing their habitat loss to the materials of Chicago's built history.  The stone structures that survived the Great Chicago Fire are among the surfaces these dragonflies depend on for survival. The work proposed repurposing wells and groundwater sites facing abandonment as habitat infrastructure, linking utility corridors into migration pathways for threatened species.

Anne holds a Master in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her student work has been recognized by World Landscape Architecture and the American Society of Landscape Architecture.  

At Reed Hilderbrand, she is contributing to the Cambridge Urban Forest Plan, Brackenridge Park, and the University of Kentucky Arboretum. Away from the studio, she enjoys cooking her way through the world's cuisines and has recently taken up swimming.