Based in Arizona while growing up, Annelisa spent her childhood outside in the American Southwest. Annelisa graduated with distinction from Yale's undergraduate art program in 2016. She has also studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, DC, and Yale’s studio art intensive in Auvillar, France. She has traveled through Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Caribbean in pursuit of artistic projects. She is inspired by nature, politics, and travel; she has spent the last year working online in order to travel and paint throughout India, Nepal, and Southeast Asia.