Executive Director | Television Academy Foundation

Anne Vasquez is the Executive Director of the Television Academy Foundation, where she oversees daily operations and provides strategic leadership of its programs and fundraising to fulfill the charitable organization’s mission to advance and inspire the next generation of storytellers and industry leaders while honoring television’s legacy.

During her previous five years as CEO at EdSource, Inc., an award-winning California nonprofit news organization with the state’s largest newsroom devoted to education, she established groundbreaking new partnerships, expanded funder and donor support by more than $2 million, and led the organization through a strategic plan to position it for the future. Prior to her time at EdSource, she served as senior vice president of strategic initiatives and chief digital officer at Tribune Publishing, where she led digital strategy across 10 news markets. Before that, Vasquez was managing editor of the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, FL, when the newsroom won its first Pulitzer Prize — the 2013 Gold Medal for Public Service.

She’s also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (USC) where she teaches a graduate course in narrative storytelling. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Vasquez was raised in Miami, FL, and began her career as a reporter for The Miami Herald and later for the San Jose Mercury News in California. A passionate champion of diversity and inclusion, she became the editor of one of the country’s first race and demographics teams.

Vasquez has served on the boards of the American Society of News Editors and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She is on the Leadership Council of the Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University, Vasquez’s alma mater.

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