Ann Diederich

Ann has three decades of experience as a global educator in the primary to tertiary levels. She has served as Director of Global Partnerships and Programs at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, Master Teacher and advisor at the Rassias Center for Global Languages and Cultures at Dartmouth College, World Languages Department Chair at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, and as a French, Spanish and history teacher throughout her career. As the president of the Pasadena Chapter of the United Nations Association, her mission is to promote the SDGs, empathy, perspective-taking and global citizenship in her community. As a board member e² education & environment and Acción : Education in Action, she has contributed to more than a dozen publication projects and bilingual college counseling workshops for LA Unified School District students. During the pandemic, Ann trained in story exchange facilitation with Narrative 4, and has since collaborated with numerous global changemakers and students to promote empathy  building and perspective-taking worldwide. As co-chair of the Passport, COIR and Delegations committees at AWIU, she has found great inspiration working with courageous women around the world. Ann majored in French, Spanish and Western European Studies at Georgetown University, researched feminist policy in post-Franco Spain as a Fulbright Scholar, and earned a master’s degree in French from Middlebury.