Annika Leichtweiss is from Hamburg, Germany. She moved to Los Angeles in October 2000 to take English classes and work on her thesis for university in Germany about selected aspects of Hollywood’s history. Her major, Cultural Studies, covered such subjects as cultural theory, anthropology, field research, cultural history, cross-cultural processes, psychology, literature and film and media studies. Her minors were English and Art History. She then started the Certificate Program “Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts” at UCLA Extension, where she graduated in June 2004. Since June 2006, she has been a US Permanent Resident.