Ann Pierson was born and raised in Royal Oak, MI, a suburb of Detroit. She attended Indiana University where she studied viola and violin. She is married and has three children and six grandchildren. Ann, along with her husband, Jim, have been involved with Courtside ministries in Marion and Morgan Counties for the past four years.

In addition to Courtside Ministries, Ann and Jim belong to Community Care Network and work as Community Builders at TowneView Apartments in Mooresville, IN. There they plan social and spiritual activities for residents. Ann continues to teach in the Martinsville area. In 2008, she founded Simply Strings, a group of her most advanced high school students who perform weddings, events, and festivals in the Indianapolis area.

Currently, Ann has 23 students and is a member of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Bloomington, IN, since 2015. In 2015, a church friend invited Ann on a ministry trip to Rwanda and Burundi, Africa. She had several return trips, and on a journey in 2018, she was introduced to a small group of musicians wanting violins in Bujumbura, Burundi. On her next trip, Ann brought eight violins and started teaching and sharing her love for music with young Burundians. She currently travels there twice a year for 4-6 weeks each trip, teaching violin and music theory. When in the US, Burundi students take virtual violin lessons from Ann.