Anne B. Donahue is a Vermont state representative first elected in 2002. She became a mental health advocate after her own serious illness and multiple hospitalizations in the mid to late 1990s, and was the editor of Counterpoint, the newspaper of Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, for 30 years. She was born in Vermont, received her BA from Boston College and her JD at Georgetown University Law Center in 1981, and settled in Northfield, Vermont in 1990. Anne became interested in the history of patient burials at the Vermont State Hospital (1891-2011) and in preserving the identity of those who were buried and location of their graves after the hospital was flooded and subsequently closed after Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.