She has a nurse practitioner master’s degree, a doctorate, and a certificate in ethics consultation. She has published extensively and edits the ethics columns in Pediatric Nursing and in Advances in Neonatal Care, and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Perinatology. She is the past president of the Nurses Subsection of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, past secretary of the National Perinatal Association, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, past-president of the Sonoma State Sigma Theta Tau chapter, and past instructor in the Johnson and Johnson Maternal Child Leadership Institute. Anita serves as the nurse representative to the ACOG American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Ethics Committee. She is a returning member of the ANA Council on Ethics.