Our People

Biography

Anne C. Kubisch is the Director of the Roundtable on Community Change at The Aspen Institute.  The aim of the Roundtable is to distill lessons that are being learned by the current generation of community revitalization efforts and to work on cross-cutting problems facing policymakers, practitioners, funders, and researchers in the field of community change.

Anne directs a number of Roundtable projects on topics that are key to community revitalization, such as racial equity, civic capacity, and evaluation of community change initiatives.  She has been the lead author of five books published by the Roundtable and  has written numerous papers and articles about efforts to improve conditions in distressed communities.  Anne also serves as the lead facilitator and trainer in Roundtable convenings of researchers, practitioners, policymakers and funders, and she frequently gives public presentations on the Roundtable’s work.

Anne serves on several boards:  United Neighborhood Houses of New York, the Advisory Board of the Woodrow Wilson School, the Levitt Foundation, the Roundtable on Health Disparities at the Institute of Medicine, and the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development.  She is the Chair of the Board of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education.

Previously, Anne spent 10 years at the Ford Foundation, initially working on Latin American programs, then as Representative in Nigeria, and finally as Deputy Director of the Urban Poverty Program.  She has a Master’s Degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.