Ann Kirschner

Ann Kirschner’s career has covered a lot of territory, from the classroom to the boardroom. She is the former interim President of Hunter College and was previously Dean of Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York and is currently University Professor. As an entrepreneur, she was a senior executive of five technology start-ups including NFL.COM and NFL SUNDAY TICKET, and FATHOM, one of the first online learning companies. She is an independent board director at Movado Group (MOV) and Strategic Cyber Ventures. As President of Comma Communications and Senior Advisor to the President at Arizona State University, she consults on initiatives in technology, media, and learning. She serves on the advisory board of Chegg and World Quant University, and is a trustee of NYC First and the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation. A former trustee of Princeton University, she co-chairs the Graduate School Leadership Council and is a member of the Advisory Council of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her writings include Sala’s Gift, the story of her mother’s wartime rescue of letters from Nazi labor camps, which is the basis of Arlene Hutton’s play Letters to Sala. She is also the author of Lady at the OK Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp and recently appeared in the documentary Jews of the West and Netflix’s Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy Wars. Her articles on technology, media, and education have appeared in numerous publications.