Pedersen leads preservation group
Ann-Eve PedersenΒ has been named executive director of the Southwestern Foundation for Education and Historical Preservation, succeedingΒ Dianne Bret Harte, who retired this month after 19 years in the post.
Pedersen is an education advocate and former journalist. She has been city editor at the Arizona Daily Star, managing editor for news and business at the Tucson Citizen, and president of the Arizona Education Network. She holds a B.A. from Brown University.
The Southwestern Foundation, now in its 25th year, was established with an endowment from the estate ofΒ Jane Harrison Ivancovich, a Tucson community leader and philanthropist. The foundation has distributed more than $7 million in grants to promote the restoration and preservation of historic treasures in the Southwest, to fund scholarship and research in related fields and to further the education of schoolchildren and college students.
