Ann B. Friedman of Bethesda, MD, currently teaches beginning reading and writing with the Montgomery County Public Schools.  She is a trustee of Conservation International, headquartered in Washington, D.C., and four years ago started the Women’s Conservation Forum in Washington under the auspices of CI. She is the board chair of the SEED Foundation, the parent organization of the SEED schools, the nation’s first inner-city, college-prep, public boarding schools.  Mrs. Friedman is a board member of the public television station WETA, where she chairs the TV/FM Broadcasting Committee and has helped fund the development of a new website promoting adolescent literacy. Mrs. Friedman is also a trustee of the National Symphony Orchestra.  She earned her B.A. in History and Economics from Stanford University in 1975, and later received a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics (1976) and a Masters in Teaching from American University (1998).   She and her husband, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman, have two daughters, Orly and Natalie.

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