Annie Hamdani attended Earlham College where she received a B.A. in English in 2013. After college, she worked for Abode Services as a case worker for families experiencing homelessness in the Bay Area. In Austin, she interned for the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty where she learned about the importance of mitigation work. She attended a mitigation training for the National Legal Aid and Defense fund and joined TDS in September of 2018.