Ann Kirschner is an experienced leader in education and digital media, with particular focus on technologies and models that transform content, commerce, and learning. Dr. Kirschner’s career has covered a lot of territory, from the classroom to the boardroom. At CUNY, she served as president of Hunter College, dean of Macaulay Honors College, and strategic adviser to the Chancellor, expanding public-private partnerships and launching CUNY’s partnership with Cornell Tech, Verizon, and other companies in the creation of Women in Technology in New York (WITNY, now known as Break Through Tech). At the Graduate Center, she developed and taught interdisciplinary courses on the future of higher education, and the future of work. As an entrepreneur and digital strategist, 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, which she developed at Columbia University in partnership with the London School of Economics, University of Chicago, the British Library, and other leading institutions.An experienced corporate board director, Ann Kirschner serves on the board of the Movado Group (MOV) and Strategic Cyber Ventures, and is an advisor to ShortTok, the AI video company. At Arizona State University, she is Senior Advisor to the Office of the President, Professor of Practice. and on the Management Committee of EdPlus and Learning Enterprise She co-chairs the Princeton University Graduate School Leadership Council and also serves on the Advisory Council of the Princeton University School of Engineering, and on the Academic Advisory Council of Chegg. She is a director of the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, NYC FIRST, and World Quant University. She is the author of Sala’s Gift (2006) and Lady at the OK Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp (2013), and a frequent speaker and writer on innovation in media, technology, and education, and the future of work. She graduated from the University of Buffalo and the University of Virginia and received her PhD from Princeton University, where she was a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities.As a University Professor at The City University of New York, she co-teaches the Macaulay Honors College seminar in The Future of New York City. http://kirschner.org/about/