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Ann Kirschner

Ann Kirschner is University Professor at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York, where she teaches a seminar on the Future of New York City. 

Her varied career has focused primarily on the impact of technology on how we work, shop, entertain, and learn. She brings her experience as a strategist, board director, entrepreneur, and educator to her work on corporate and nonprofit boards, including Movado Group, Strategic Cyber Ventures, NYC First, and the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation. At Arizona State University, she serves as Senior Advisor to the President and on the Management Committee of EdPlus and Learning Enterprise. 

Kirschner’s career spans executive roles in both public and private sectors. At the NFL, she launched NFL.COM, and at Columbia University, she led Fathom, an online learning company. She was interim president of Hunter College at CUNY and Dean of Macaulay Honors College, and an elected trustee at Princeton University, where she currently co-chairs the Graduate School Leadership Council and is a member of the Advisory Council of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 

Kirschner is a writer and speaker on innovation and higher education, a contributor to Forbes, and the author of Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story and Lady at the OK Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp.  Kirschner holds degrees from the University at Buffalo and the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, where she was Whiting Fellow in the humanities.