Vice President Anna Ferdinand has taught English and journalism at Sedro-Woolley High School in Northwest Washington for nine years. Anna studied at New York University, and went on to work in Port-au-Prince, Haiti from 1995-2004, writing for Reuters and The Haitian Times as well as the creole publication Liberte. She wrote for the Organic Press and won multiple awards for her writing in the La Conner Weekly News through the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association (WNPA). Anna has been a member of WJEA since 2014 and has taught journalism for the WJEA summer workshop since 2018. She looks forward to helping maintain the excellent programming WJEA provides in an effort to inspire student journalists in Washington State and beyond.