Ann grew up primarily in Greensboro, NC, going to Grimsley HS and UNCG. Ann spent 22 years on staff with Young Life, a ministry to adolescents. Ann spent 20 years living in Houston, TX, where she began ministry to one of the lowest-income communities in Houston. Not long after her arrival to Houston in 1998, she began to see a need to serve teen moms in the community and began one of the first groups of what is today Young
Lives, which has now grown world-wide.