She met fellow board member, Carol Binnington, while volunteering for the nonprofit One Spirit as an area coordinator and assisted Carol with the food program. She is secretary of her church’s Peace and Social Justice Commission and worked on fundraising for Sojourner Truth House, Habitat For Humanity, Meals on Wheels, and Red Cloud Indian School. Her past work experience includes secretary, office manager, bookkeeper, retail clerk and most recently her dream job of working in a greenhouse and farm market. The organization has since expanded to assist projects on the Rosebud and Yankton Reservations as well as other programs on Pine Ridge.Īttended Ivy Tech and Ancilla Domini College majoring in business and science. In 2013 she started Lakota Friends Circle along with Theresa and Jerome High Horse, to help support their volunteer work among the Wanblee community. In 2010/11 she taught at the Oglala Early Head Start program. Since retiring and moving to Georgia, Anne has spent more than two years on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation over a number of visits. After marrying an American and moving to the US, she worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD. Carol visited Pine Ridge on a few occasions and after seeing how extreme poverty affected Native American Children, she and fellow LFC board member, Janet Schnurlein, formed Sew For Kids to get assistance for children and their families living in remote and underserved areas of reservations in South Dakota.Ī native of England, Anne has a PhD in physics and was a research fellow at Cambridge University in England. She volunteered for ONE Spirit, a nonprofit operating on Pine Ridge, as an area coordinator helping families with basic needs, supervised distribution for the food program and sponsored two families through One Spirit’s Sponsorship Program. Carol moved to California 5 years ago and began volunteering for Los Angeles Foster Care, Los Angeles Food Bank and others dealing with homeless issues. She has volunteered for many organizations through the years – as a mentor, classroom aid and in library programs for schools Crisis Nursery in CU Illinois for abused and neglected children, Illinois Habitat for Humanity, low income health clinics, and the Box Project where she assisted a family in Mississippi with needs for 20 years. She is interested in children’s issues especially those from low income areas. She and her husband love to travel and have lived in Europe, Chile, and Canada. Her interests are sewing, knitting, reading, playing outdoor sports and gardening. Carol is a retired physician, married, mother of 2 and grandmother of 4.
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