Anna has many years of community organizing and activism experience promoting environmental preservation and affordable housing. She has five years of experience coalition building at the county level successfully passing every piece of legislation she has authored and championed. She has chaired the Health & Human Services Committee, the Planning, Energy, & Environmental Quality Committee, and currently chairs the Housing & Economic Development Committee. Her efforts have lead to more funding investments in affordable housing, childcare development, immigrant protections, and alternatives to incarceration.

Since joining the legislature, Anna has been a member of two healthcare standing committees of the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) and recently was appointed to the Climate Resiliency committee. For five years, Anna has worked with county legislators throughout the state to draft, pass, and champion legislation to influence state policies and funding priorities. She goes to Albany multiple times each annual state legislative session to meet with state legislators and the Governor’s staff to lobby for policy priorities that will help our district, including issues like sufficient funding allocation for community colleges, reduction in unfunded medicaid mandates and arbitrary state caps, sufficient funding for mental health and public health systems, and equity in state plans to implement a possible $3 billion Save Mother Nature Bond Act. In 2019, she presented at the bi-annual NYSAC convening on technologies that minimize greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment municipal facilities. 

For the last two years, Anna has co-chaired the first-ever state chapter of the national organization Local Progress, a network of progressive elected officials advancing a racial and economic justice agenda. As co-Chair in 2019, Anna was instrumental in developing a state legislative agenda and strategies that helped expand statewide renter protections, increase funding for clean drinking water, and promote election reforms.