Cortesio, Anna 

Front Desk Clerk

anna cortesio

Anna is a graduate student at the University of San Francisco, working toward a Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Second Language. She is originally from Iowa. She has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from San Francisco State University. Anna also studied at La Universidad Católica de Chile, where she learned to speak Spanish. In 2007, she traveled to Mexico for the first time and spent the summer volunteering at an orphanage in Oaxaca. There she met her partner, Gustavo, a printmaker from Puebla. Since then she has split her time between San Francisco and Central Mexico, where she taught English as a foreign language. Anna enjoys traveling, reading the New York Times and hiking. This is her second year at San Francisco Friends School.