Lady Ann Salem finished Broadcast Communication at the University of the Philippines. She was a fellow at the 15th Lopez Jaena Community Journalism Fellowship and winner at Netsquared.org and Techsoup Global for Citizen Patrol project idea. She served as executive director of Tudla Productions, producing social documentaries from 2008 to 2014. She is one of the founders of online publication Manila Today and served as its editor since 2014. She is currently one of 15 National Directors of National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.