Anne B. Zill holds memberships in the American Alliance of Museums, the New England Museum Association, the Feminist Majority, National Organization of Women, and the Maine Women's Lobby.
PORTLAND, ME, November 05, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Anne B. Zill with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Ms. Zill celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Ms. Zill has been a program associate for the Stewart R. Mott Foundation, formerly known as Charitable Trust, since 1973. She is the founder (1996) and president of the Women's Center for Ethics in Action, dedicated to the promulgation of principled women's leadership across disciplines. From 1998 to 2018, she was the director of the art gallery at the University of New England. She co-founded the Fund for Constitutional Government in Washington, D.C., and has been the president since 1974. She convinced Dell to publish "The Impeachable Offenses of Richard M. Nixon," which was displayed in airports, as well as drug and book stores around the country. Also in that year she co-founded the Women's Campaign Fund, now known as She Should Run, and served as board chair for a number of years. She then founded its tax deductible sister entity, The Women's Campaign Research Fund in 1981.
Ms. Zill has mounted two exhibitions (in 2000 and 2001) of women's fine art from around the world at the United Nations as well as a photographic exhibition, Women's Lives/Women's Work, at UNESCO in 2011. In addition she created a traveling exhibition, Women on War, which was exhibited at nine U.S. venues from 2003 to 2009.
Her academic pursuits began at Barnard College in New York City where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1963. She continued her studies at American University in Washington, D.C., where she obtained a Master of Arts in communications with a focus on political journalism in 1970. Later she was awarded a Congressional Fellowship by the American Political Science Association.
In 1969, Ms. Zill began her professional career as the public affairs director-correspondent for the National Educational Radio Network, NPR's predecessor. She worked on Ralph Nader's Congress Project in 1972, and wrote five of the Congressional profiles for that study.
Learning on the job from experience as well as mistakes, Ms. Zill became a wiser if not always successful leader. Once when chairing a meeting of the Women's Campaign Fund (WCF), to which she had invited every woman she could think of in a position of authority, the discussion about a 'women's right to choose' got out of hand. Word leaked out that WCF had backed away from the bottom-line principal. In fact the organization had embraced 'choice' but not before word was spread to the likes of Gloria Steinem and the ACLU that this organization had defected from the women's movement. Learning how to direct a meeting was a lesson she learned then.
Other professional opportunities include her presidency of the Karen Silkwood Education Fund from 1978 to 1980 to raise funds for the law suit that preceded the film to expose the dangerous underbelly of the nuclear age; a year with DeLorme Mapping where she directed an Earth Information systems from 1992 to 1993; a time with the Women's Environmental and Developmental Organization, founded by Bella Abzug, when she served as their Washington representative from 1994 to 1996; a stint in 1995 as a project consultant with the China Strategic Institute after the Tiananmen Square debacle; and the founding consultant and later board member and advisor of the Maine Women's Fund to empower women in the state since 1989.
As a professional activist, Ms. Zill has served on numerous public interest boards of organizations such as Project on Government Oversight, Citizens for Global Solutions (formally the World Federalist Association), Earth Action, Citizens Vote, Women for Women International, the Network of East-West Women and the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts.
In addition, she holds memberships in the American Alliance of Museums, the New England Museum Association, the Feminist Majority, National Organization of Women, and the Maine Women's Lobby.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to her profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Anne Zill has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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