Anita grew up in Wichita, Kansas and earned a bachelor’s in music with a minor in cultural anthropology at Wichita State University. She then moved to Chicago with a rock band, where she lived for 17 years before moving back to Kansas to work for The Land Institute. She spent 12 of her years in Chicago working at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine assisting various members of higher administration and in communications. She is excited to be at an organization where she can use many of the skills she learned in previous roles in work that she believes can truly change culture and environment for the benefit of the planet and people together.