Ann Beeson is a distinguished social justice lawyer and a zealous advocate for the transformative power of culture. Until April 2012, she was a senior fellow with the Open Society Foundations.
Beeson was the executive director of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations from 2007 to 2011. At the Foundations, she launched programs to strengthen government transparency and address the crisis in journalism, increase the capacity of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab organizations to advocate on their own behalf, and advance achievement for African-American men and boys.