Anna Mizes graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in Political Science. After graduating, Anna was hired with the Department of the Army and held a successful 30-year career as a Human Resources Officer and Labor Relations Specialist. Following her retirement in 2016, Anna volunteered as an overseas missionary with a Roman Catholic Organization. After converting to Eastern Orthodoxy in 2019, Anna continued her missionary work as an OCMC missionary while working at St. Tikhon’s Monastery Bookstore in South Canaan, PA. In 2021, she moved to Kodiak, Alaska, where she studied at St. Herman’s Seminary for a brief period before moving to Anchorage where she works as the Administrative Assistant in the Chancery of the Diocese of Sitka and Alaska.