Anne Fitzgibbon is a social entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, city government, and arts education. She is founder and Executive Director of the Harmony Program, a non-profit organization that provides hundreds of youth from under-served New York City communities with free, intensive musical training with the goal of supporting their healthy social development and academic achievement.

Anne founded the Harmony Program while working as a policy advisor in the administration of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and was awarded a year-long Fulbright Fellowship in 2007 to study “El Sistema,” Venezuela’s world-renowned national youth orchestra system, and adapt tenets of the model to serve children in  New York City. Her work has been featured on the PBS NewsHour, ABC Nightly News, and CBS Evening News, among other media outlets, and in books and documentary films.

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As a leader and innovator in the field of music education, she has raised millions of dollars in financial support and developed strategic partnerships with educational organizations, cultural institutions, and businesses, including the New York Philharmonic, the Warner Music Group, G. Schirmer, and the City University of ​New York. She has collaborated with world-class artists such as Plácido Domingo, Joshua Bell, Wynton Marsalis, and Paquito D’Rivera.

Committed to inspiring others to develop creative solutions to social challenges, Anne has led workshops for musicians, educators, and nonprofit entrepreneurs abroad and at home at universities and conservatories, including Princeton University, Oberlin Conservatory, New York University, the Juilliard School, and others.

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Anne holds a graduate degree in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and an undergraduate degree from Barnard College. She studied clarinet at the Juilliard School through the Columbia - Barnard - Juilliard exchange program.