Ann Wilson Green earned her Bachelor of Arts from the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Upon graduating, she began practicing law specializing in medical device and pharmaceutical products liability litigation. While in private practice in both New York City and San Francisco, Ann was actively involved in pro bono work. She has been an advocate for people with Disabilities since she was a teenager when she worked as an aide helping adults with Down syndrome transition out of lifelong institutional residence. Ann also worked pro bono on the appeal of a Death Row inmate at San Quentin. After practicing law for several years and being promoted to partner, Ann returned to school and earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Stanford University. She wrote her master's thesis tracing Sigmund Freud's concept of interrupted mourning in James Joyce's Ulysses. 

Interested in continuing her Joyce studies, Ann enrolled in Claremont Graduate University’s PhD program in English. During her tenure as a PhD student, Ann presented her research on Queen Victoria in Ulysses at two International James Joyce Symposiums in Antwerp in 2018 and Glasgow in 2024. In the Fall of 2019, Ann published an article in the James Joyce Quarterly entitled "Conjuring the Shades of Queen Victoria in James Joyce's Ulysses." In her dissertation, Ann studied the evolution of Queen Victoria as a modern character in the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Lytton Strachey. Ann earned her PhD in English from Claremont in 2025.

Ann currently serves on the Board for Claremont Graduate University, where she is also a visiting scholar. She is on the Alumni Advisory Board for Stanford's Master of Liberal Arts program and is a Trustee with the Nueva School, a Bay Area preK-12 independent school where she chairs an Equity and Inclusion committee. Ann enjoys running, reading, writing, and coming up with dinner table questions in her spare time.