Ana is a mission-minded nonprofit leader who finds her deepest joy at the intersection of faith and service. For more than a decade, Ana has planted herself where abandoned, lost, and forgotten people can be seen and served. Today she leads fundraising and strategic development for The Salvation Army in Austin, shaping resources that underwrite frontline ministry across Central Texas, informed by years of disaster-management deployments and seasons expanding humanitarian operations throughout 4 continents, with a focus on Latin America and Africa.

Strategy is her wiring, but freedom in Christ is her fuel; every plan, partnership, and spreadsheet is crafted so others can encounter Jesus’ restoring love. Ana is a proud Latina, the youngest of five siblings, aunt to four nephews and four nieces, and… the “Grandauntie” to one grandnephew and four grandnieces (Christmas is a very expensive holiday, ha!). A lifetime of big-family dynamics taught her to listen first, love hard, and find creative ways to serve, habits that now shape her calling in ministry and humanitarian work. Ana combines cultural insight with a strategist’s eye to be a vessel in expanding God’s Kingdom.

Outside the office, Ana moves quietly but intentionally alongside mission efforts: advising anti-human-trafficking teams, backing missionaries around the globe, trekking into remote villages for community outreach, and gathering friends in her living room for small-group worship and prayer nights. You will often find her on the Texas trails, praying with a friend or a stranger, or refereeing a pick-up match for Rocky, her soccer-savvy dog who rules her house. She tries to embody Colossians 3:23: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord.”

Ana has a pastoral heart for those who shepherd others and a childlike faith for the wanderers of the Lord. Having watched close friends in ministry navigate burnout and isolation, Ana is eager to lend her blend of governance acumen, crisis experience, and pastoral empathy to PastorServe’s Board, believing healthy shepherds lead flourishing flocks. She sees this role as one more way to make sure no servant of the Gospel ever feels abandoned, lost, or forgotten while joining those growing the Great Commission.