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. She currently serves as the interim president of Hunter College. As a tech entrepreneur in the 1990s and 2000s, Kirschner launched the National Football League's website, the first online livestream of the Super Bowl, and co-founded Columbia University's interactive knowledge network Fathom.com. She is Dean Emerita of Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York (CUNY), a University Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, a faculty fellow of the Futures Initiative, and interim president of Hunter College.