Anna (Anne) Eleanor Roosevelt
Vice President
Global Corporate Citizenship
The Boeing Company
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (known as Anne) serves as the enterprise-wide leader of Boeing's global corporate citizenship, providing philosophical and strategic direction to the company as well as managing a network of U.S. and international community investors who employ Boeing's multiple resources to address needs of communities where the company has a business presence.
After graduate school, Roosevelt moved to Kentucky, where she joined the faculty of Western Kentucky University; there she taught museum studies and worked on the staff of The Kentucky Museum for almost eight years. In 1983, she moved to Chicago as a freelance collection consultant. She was later named the first director of the Center for Scandinavian Studies at North Park College in Chicago.
In 1987, Roosevelt refocused her efforts to pursue her lifelong interest in politics, working for the Democratic National Committee. In 1989 she managed Senator Paul Simon's Chicago office and his 1990 re-election campaign. The following year, Roosevelt was a consultant for the "Daley for Mayor" campaign. In 1991, she became the first executive director of the Museums in the Park, an organization representing the political interest of the nine museums located on Chicago Park District land.
From 1996 through 1998, she served as the director of the Mayor's Office of Program Development for the City of Chicago, and in January 1998, she began as executive director of the Brain Research Foundation, an affiliate of The University of Chicago. In 2001, when Boeing relocated to Chicago, Roosevelt became director of Community and Education Relations for Boeing's Corporate Offices. In 2006, she was named vice-president of Global Corporate Citizenship, an enterprise wide responsibility.
Roosevelt serves as a board member of Roosevelt University, Spelman College, an advisory board member for the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and a member of the Chicago Sister Cities Casablanca Committee. She is also a board member of the Foundation for the National Archives, and chairs the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in New York.
Born in Pasadena, Calif., Roosevelt graduated from Stanford University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in art and art history, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a Master of Science degree in library science.