About Ann

Ann Kirschner began her career as a lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton University, where she earned a Ph.D in English.

Her career as an entrepreneur in media and technology included the creation of satellite and internet businesses for the National Football League and Columbia University’s online education company, Fathom.

A frequent contributor to conferences and publications, Ann Kirschner was named one of New York Magazine’s Millennium New Yorkers and honored as a distinguished graduate of Princeton University.

She serves on the Board of Directors of Apollo (University of Phoenix), Public Agenda, the Jewish Women’s Archive, Open University of Israel, and the Princeton University English Department Advisory Council.

Ann Kirschner is the author of SALA’S GIFT (Simon and Schuster/Free Press, 2006), the story of her mother’s wartime rescue of letters from Nazi labor camps, available in German, Polish, and Italian editions and soon in a Chinese edition. The original letters are in the permanent collection of the New York Public Library, and are the subject of a traveling exhibit in the United States and Europe, a theatrical play by Arlene Hutton, and a documentary film by Murray Nossel.

She lives in New York with her husband, Dr. Harold Weinberg, and is the mother of Elisabeth, Caroline, and Peter.

• Ann’s bio

Some former lives:

• More Scholars Seeking Business Jobs
• Making Education an Online Brand
• NFL Alumni gathering
• More articles by and about Ann Kirschner
• “My Letters from the War: A Girl’s link to home, now a piece of history”
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  The New York Times, June 11, 2005
• “Alma Mater in the Time of Tivo.”
  The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 9, 2005
• Ann Kirschner on Marketing and Distribution of Online Learning
  Ubiquity, 22 June 2004
• “Letters to Sala”
  Princeton Alumni Magazine, November 17, 2004
• USC Presents…USC CloseUp with Dr. Ann Kirschner
  University of Southern California, April 6, 2004
• Ann Kirschner on Marketing and Distribution of Online Learning
  Ubiquity, 22 June 2004
• Preparing for Entrance Exams Online
  The New York Times
• A Mother’s Gift: Hidden Letters From the Holocaust
  The Chronicle of Higher Education
• A Mother’s Gift: Hidden Letters From the Holocaust
  The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Publishing Trends
  Phoenix Rising: Online Learning’s 600-pound Gorilla Tangos with Textbook Publishers
• Distance Learning Today and Tomorrow: Lessons Learned from Fathom
  University of Southern California/Center for Scholarly Technology
• Multichannel News
  Broadband: cable’s not-so-secret weapon
• Fathom: A Case Study of a Public/Private Partnership in Higher Education
  from A Digital Gift to the Nation: Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital and Internet Age by Lawrence K. Grossman and Newton N. Minow