Ms. Anna, a native of Oklahoma, began her Chicago Style Stepping career in 2003 in Seattle, WA, where she currently resides.  She was recognized by the founder of Seattle’s first stepping organization, The Original Seattle Steppers (TOSS), for her choreography talents of creating her first line dance to R. Kelly’s hit “Step In The Name of Love”.  She was hired as TOSS’s lead stepping instructor in their weekly class at the Royal Esquire Club.  Ms. Anna traveled abroad for her special stepping training, including to Chicago, where she met her mentors.  The TOSS classes (under her instruction) proved to be so productive that its size almost tripled. To accommodate the increased number of students, Ms. Anna trained one of her more experienced students to become a “Peer Instructor”.  She also developed a teaching guideline for both beginner and intermediate steppers.  A second venue, McGowan’s Restaurant & Lounge, was added to the already growing calendar of classes, performances, and parades.  Her teaching style and the dance was so contagious that she was hired and began teaching Chicago Style Stepping as an elective class at the Seattle Central Community College where she taught from 2005-2009. In 2006, Ms. Anna started her own organization and added Soul Line Dancing to her classes.