Ana has served as the director of criminal justice reform at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) since March 2018. At CZI, Ana leads a cross-functional team working to redesign the criminal justice system with community health and safety at its core, rather than incarceration and punishment. Using advocacy, grantmaking, technology, and innovation, the team and grantee partners work to drive change and build opportunities for those impacted by the justice system.

Before making the move into the philanthropic sector, Ana worked on state level criminal justice policy reform at the American Civil Liberties Union for over a decade, ending her tenure there as the criminal justice policy director for the Northern California region. Using integrated advocacy, Ana advanced issues including sentencing reform, ending the death penalty, legislative and administrative reforms to reduce and remedy wrongful convictions, and greater prosecutorial accountability through voter education and engagement. Ana also served as Deputy Campaign Manager (Yes on 34 in 2012) and Campaign Manager (No on 66 in 2016) in two California ballot measure campaigns. 

Ana started her career in the criminal justice sector with her first job out of college where she served as an administrative assistant at a law firm in California providing post-conviction legal services to individuals under sentence of death. She quickly learned about the inefficiencies and injustices of the criminal legal system and became committed to working for large scale change first through direct legal work, then policy work, and now as a funder of criminal justice reform advocacy in the U.S.