Prior to founding Harmony, Anne Fitzgibbon worked for five years in the New York City Mayor’s Office. As a policy advisor in Mayor Bloomberg’s administration, she focused principally on the analysis of social services, youth programs, and education, and oversaw the development and management of a number of city-wide initiatives, including an adult literacy program for immigrant parents in Queens. She also served as the Director of Research for Mayor Bloomberg’s 2002 Charter Revision Commission reviewing proposed changes to the New York City Charter.

Before joining the Bloomberg administration, Anne worked under Mayor Giuliani as Advisor to the Deputy Mayor for Planning, Education and Cultural Affairs. In addition to studying public policy issues including education, social services, and economic development, she was appointed Chair of Mayor Giuliani’s New Media Council, a group of public and private sector leaders working to support the City’s technology sector. Anne has worked as Director of Management Analysis and Planning at the New York City Department for the Aging, as a budget analyst in the Education Unit of the City’s Office of Management and Budget, and as a manager for the City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation.

Anne holds a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs and Urban and Regional Planning from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She graduated from Barnard College and studied clarinet at the Juilliard School.

Anne was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work with the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela. Anne accepted the eight month fellowship in South America in an effort to learn new long-term approaches to further enrich the Harmony Program.