Ms. Anderson is a Research Project/Portfolio Manager for AI for Climate and Sustainability and the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University (NU). Prior to that, Ms. Anderson was a Senior Research Portfolio Manager for Kostas Research Institute at NU.

Before NU, Ms. Anderson supported the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information System (PEO EIS) office within the ARMY’s ASAALT division and assisted with implementing a new Project Management Resource Tool, worked as a Project Manager in the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) CIO’s office in the Mainframe and Continuous Monitoring departments and the Performance Accountability Council Project Management Office, was a federal agent/criminal investigator with the Department of Justice United States Marshals Service for 25 years wherein she specialized in judicial and witness protection. 

Ms. Anderson holds a Master of Business Administration from Georgia State University, a Master of Public Policy emphasizing National Security from George Mason University, and a Master of Arts in Defense and Strategic Studies with an international security focus from the United States Naval War College.  Ms. Anderson has been published in a peer review journal as a co-author analyzing the Global Slavery Index and multiple law enforcement publications.