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Ann Marie Stieritz is an experienced C-suite executive who excels at leading organizations and initiatives from start-up to implementation and growth. She is especially committed to a mission of expanding opportunity and educational pathways to ensure that all citizens can contribute to and participate in a thriving economy.
Ann Marie is the immediate past-President & CEO of Liberty Fellowship, the only state-based executive leadership program within the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). She stepped down from her role in June 2024 having led all aspects of Liberty Fellowship’s strategic, operational and programmatic functions. She successfully shepherded the then 18-year-old program from a Founder-led initiative to full incorporation as an independent 501(c)3 entity. Ann Marie initially joined Liberty Fellowship as its inaugural Chief Impact Officer in 2017.
Ann Marie is a member of the Board of Directors of Build Carolina, a non-profit entity advancing South Carolina’s tech community through demand-driven training, connection, and support. She is also a founding Board Member of Apprenticeships for America, a national organization working to expand apprenticeship funding, vastly increase the number and scale of registered apprenticeship programs, raise public awareness of these life-changing opportunities and bring the US in line with peers worldwide in allowing workers to earn, learn, and pursue paths to economic opportunity. Ann Marie previously served as the Founding Director of Apprenticeship Carolina™ which became a national model for employer-driven talent development. Her other professional roles in South Carolina include President & CEO of the South Carolina Council on Competitiveness; Deputy Executive Director of the University of South Carolina Office of Economic Engagement; and Vice President for Economic and Workforce Competitiveness of the South Carolina Technical College System.
Long committed to global engagement, Ann Marie previously worked as Vice President of the Ponape Agricultural & Trade School in the Federated States of Micronesia and with the US Peace Corps in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. She also served as a Political Analyst for the Consulate General of Japan in New York and as an International Trade Associate for the State of New Jersey.
Ann Marie has served on numerous professional and volunteer boards throughout her career. She is currently a member of the President’s Advisory Council of Xavier University (Cincinnati); a member of the Board of Directors and Finance Committee of the Columbia Museum of Art; a member of the Tiffany Circle of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Ann Marie received her M. Phil. (A.B.D.) in Politics and her M.A. in French Studies from New York University, a Diplôme d’études from the l’Université de Paris-la Sorbonne, and her B.A. in History and French summa cum laude from Xavier University. She is an AGLN Fellow from the Liberty Fellowship class of 2016 and Aspen Institute-certified moderator who leads Socratic text-based dialogues focused on values-based leadership for diverse executive cohorts across the globe.
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