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Ann Marie Lipinski
Vice President for Civic Engagement
Ann Marie Lipinski
5801 S. Ellis Avenue, 617
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.702.3627
Fax: 773.834.0379
Ann Marie Lipinski is the Vice President for Civic Engagement at the University of Chicago, overseeing an effort to create a new model for an urban research institution acting in partnership with its city.
She is responsible for a broad portfolio that includes the University’s engagement in public schools, economic development, public safety, the city’s bid for the 2016 Olympics, the fostering of research connections between the University and the region and linking the University’s growing international efforts to Chicago’s emerging status as a global city.
“The relationship of the University of Chicago to the City of Chicago has great potential to enrich the fundamental research and education mission of the University, while enhancing the quality of life in the city, its economic development and its global reach,” said President Robert J. Zimmer in announcing her appointment. “With a strong track record leading one of Chicago’s great institutions, Ann Marie is the right person to advance the University’s mission as a neighbor, citizen and civic leader.”
Lipinski also has been named a senior lecturer in the College.
She came to the University from the Chicago Tribune, where she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting and served as the paper’s editor for more than seven years, and before that as its managing editor. Under her stewardship, the Tribune became a leader in public service, publishing stories that freed innocent prisoners from death row and brought about the state’s moratorium on the death penalty; uncovered product defects that endangered children; revitalized the South Side lakefront; and scrutinized local and federal education initiatives. While she was editor, the paper won Pulitzers in international reporting, feature writing, explanatory reporting, editorial writing and investigative reporting.
Lipinski holds a BA from the University of Michigan and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She and her family live in the Kenwood neighborhood. She is chair of the board of the University of Chicago Charter School and serves on the Pulitzer Prize board as well as the boards of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and the Chicago Children’s Choir, the nation’s leading children’s choral group founded over 50 years ago in Hyde Park.