In 2000, Anne Lacey accepted an internship at the International Crane Foundation (ICF), while also finishing her thesis at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. After completion of her master of science, Anne accepted a full-time position at ICF as a research associate in the field ecology department, working on an ongoing long-term study of sandhill cranes. Since 2009 she has also been involved in whooping crane reintroduction, in the eastern migratory population specifically, to study the ecology of the newly reintroduced whooping cranes in Wisconsin.