Ann spent over 25 years at the University of Pennsylvania where she was head of university and medical center relations during the ’80s and director of the Pew Higher Education On-campus Roundtable and The Knight Collaborative at the Institute for Research on Higher Education during the ’90s. She was also associate director of communications for the Institute and created Policy Perspectives, one of the leading higher education periodicals in the United States. At Penn, she served on numerous University planning, fundraising, marketing, and management committees. In 1999, Ann joined the country’s foremost national fundraising firm, Marts & Lundy, to establish and head a new practice in communications and planning. She received her BA from Chatham College and did graduate work at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Ann is on the board of the Development Exchange Inc., a service organization to public radio stations across the country.