Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Board Chair

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt recently retired as the president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, a not-for-profit social enterprise with over 2,000 employees serving Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (known as Anne) recently retired as the president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, a not-for-profit social enterprise with over 2,000 employees serving Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Anne joined Goodwill in 2011 after ten years at The Boeing Company in Chicago, where she had held the position of vice president, global corporate citizenship. Anne’s career has encompassed leadership positions in philanthropy, public policy, politics, the arts, and higher education.

In 2013, Anne was presented with the Queen’s Commissioner’s Medal of Merit of The Province of Zeeland in The Netherlands, in recognition of her work carrying forward the legacy and values of her grandparents through the annual joint presentation of the Four Freedoms Awards. Currently, Anne chairs the Roosevelt Institute Board of Directors, serves on the boards of the Jim Brown Foundation and Maine Grains Inc. and she is an Obama and Biden appointee to the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission, where she serves as Chair. She is a fellow at the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and a commissioner for Roosevelt Campobello International Park in New Brunswick, Canada.

Anne holds a bachelor of arts from Stanford University and a master of science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.