Anne’s path to her career as a dressage trainer was a winding one. Anne started with weekly lessons when she was four years old and continued those through most of her undergraduate degree. She took a two-year hiatus from riding as she finished her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College in Ohio and started her graduate studies in California (Anne holds an M.S. in Ocean Sciences from UC Santa Cruz, and a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology from USC). That ended when Anne found an opportunity to start riding dressage on what would become her very first horse, a special unicorn named Bogey. The pull of the horses was stronger than ever, and Anne rode and worked at barns through the rest of her time in graduate school. She finally acknowledged that perhaps she *could* be in the horse world professionally and has since immersed herself in the perpetual quest for knowledge and improvement.  

The skills she cultivated while working on her science and technology degrees have proven to be directly translatable to her teaching, business organization, and client relations in the horse world. She is positive, patient, and encouraging in her teaching.  One of her strengths is her ability to tell students how to improve something when it’s not right, not simply to tell them that it is wrong. She brings a unique blend of purpose-driven precision and kindness to her work.