Dr. Annalise Fonza is an educator and the owner of AM Consulting, LLC, which is based in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned a PhD in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts; a Master of Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Illinois - Urbana; and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Missouri Columba, She is also a graduate of Clark Atlanta University, where she had the pleasure of being chosen the very first Miss Clark Atlanta University (homecoming queen 1989-90). Dr. Fonza is from Springfield, Illinois, but currently she lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Her first family's roots, maternal and paternal, are on the Missouri-Illinois border.