Pastor Ann was born in Arlington Heights, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. She continues to make her home in the Charlotte area where she enjoys homeschooling her children, Lance and Lyndsey.

Ann received her BA in journalism from the University of South Carolina. Since then she has enjoyed various entrepreneurial pursuits and teaching engagements. However, her passion is to devote her life to the pursuit of her relationship with Jesus as her Lord. She is also eager to share with others the means to have similar experiences in relationship with God.

It has been a natural transition for Ann to embrace the Transformation Ministry at Mighty Fortress Church and assist others in receiving freedom to be in relationship with God. As the Transformation Ministry Director, Pastor Ann has focused on bringing lasting change to the body of Christ at a heart level by giving instruction of how to allow the Holy Spirit access to one's heart for depositing truth and manifesting healing.

Ordained as a pastor by Mighty Fortress Church in January 2007, Pastor Ann has a passion to see freedom, maturity, and joy increase in the life of each transformed believer. She has taken this passion into her new outreach ministry, Joyful Life Ministries, in which she endeavors to bring foundational restoration to the body of Christ by assisting pastors to establish transformation ministry departments in their local churches.