18 Facts About Ann Kirschner

Ann Kirschner is an American entrepreneur, academic, and author of the books Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story and Lady at the OK Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp.

Ann Kirschner previously served as the interim president of Hunter College.

Ann Kirschner is Dean Emerita of Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, a University Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, a faculty fellow of the Futures Initiative, and interim president of Hunter College.

Ann Kirschner attended public school in New York City, then earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University at Buffalo and a master's degree from the University of Virginia.

Ann Kirschner received her doctorate in English literature from Princeton University, where she was a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities.

Ann Kirschner started out as a lecturer on Victorian literature at Princeton University and working as a freelance writer for CBS, The New York Times, and Chronicle of Higher Education.

Ann Kirschner assisted the director of English programs at Modern Language Association, and Lola Szladits, the director of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.

Ann Kirschner has conducted research on doctorates in business, funded by grants from Texas Committee for the Humanities, and the Littauer Foundation to study slave labor camps.

Ann Kirschner was scholar-in-residence at Rollins College and James Madison University.

Ann Kirschner's start-ups include Request Teletext, the first full-channel cable teletext service; Primetime 24 - the first home satellite broadcast network; NFL Sunday Ticket and NFL.

Ann Kirschner introduced new media to the National Football League using emerging technologies, such as interactive television and the Internet, and founded NFL.

Ann Kirschner co-founded Women In Technology and Entrepreneurship in New York, a collaboration between CUNY and Cornell Tech to increase participation of women in computer science.

WiTNY later became the founding chapter of Break Through Tech, where Ann Kirschner serves on the advisory board.

In 2023, Ann Kirschner was appointed interim president of Hunter College.

Ann Kirschner is a current or former board member of Movado Group, Strategic Cyber Ventures, Apollo Group, Topps, onhealth.

Ann Kirschner received the Above and Beyond Award from City and State Magazine, New York Award from New York Magazine, and as a distinguished alumni of University at Buffalo and Princeton University.

Ann Kirschner is the author of Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story, the story of her mother's wartime rescue of hundreds of letters sent to her during the five years she spent in Nazi slave Labor camps.

In 2013, Ann Kirschner's book was selected as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times Sunday Book Review and Ann Kirschner was honored as best new Western author by True West Magazine.