JoAnna served on AIPPI’s Standing Committee on IT and the Internet from 2014 to 2017. She is a Barrister member of the Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property Inn of Court and ChIPs, an international organization dedicating to advancing women in IP. 

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JoAnna was the sole IP attorney for the American Bureau of Shipping, a global leader in providing classification services for the marine and offshore industry, where JoAnna spent almost ten years handling complex commercial and technology-related matters and managing the IP portfolio. She began her career at the law firm Claro & Cia in Santiago, Chile. While at Claro, she published papers with AmCham Chile and the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI) and gained significant experience in national-phase patent and trademark prosecutions, trademark litigation, and domain name dispute resolution, as well as complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions. 

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JoAnna holds a B.A. in International Studies and French from Baylor University and graduated from South Texas College of Law in 2010, where she was Editor-in-Chief of Currents: The International Trade Law Journal.  She earned dual LL.M. in international law from Universidad de Chile and Ruprecht-Karls Universitat Heidelberg in 2012, thanks to the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship Program. JoAnna serves as an adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, teaching Information Security and the Law.