Ann Cramer

Ann Wilson Cramer, retired from IBM as Director for Corporate Citizenship for the Americas, is currently a Senior Consultant with Coxe Curry. Ann is a graduate of Salem College with a degree in mathematics and received Salem College’s Alumnae Leadership Award. Ann and her husband, Jeff, live in Inman Park, are active members of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and have two adult children.

In 2023, Ann received the Mayor of Atlanta’s Phoenix Award, the Young NonProfit Professional Network (YNPN) created a recognition named the Ann Cramer Civic Leadership Award. Ann has been named to Georgia Trend’s Georgia Hall of Fame and listed among Georgia Trend’s 30 Years of Influence. The Atlanta Business Chronicle’s first Corporate Social Responsibility Lifetime Achievement Award, is named in her honor.

Ann serves and has served on many nonprofit boards, including the Alliance Theatre Company,Atlanta Technical College Foundation, Atlanta Way 2.0, CareerRise, CHRIS 180, Crossroads, Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, Hope Atlanta, Learn4Life, Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs (RICE), Woodruff Arts Center, WABE, the Georgia Foundation for Public Education and Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta.
The Women’s College Coalition honored Ann and Marian Wright Edelman with the first WCC Women Creating Change Award, and Ann was one of five Georgia women to receive the first STEM Gems recognition. Ann was recognized with Ann Curry and Ann Stallard as the YWCA Women of Achievement, and with the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Women Who Mean Business, received an Honorary Doctorate in Public Service at Clayton State University and was honored with the inaugural ARC Harry West Visionary Leadership Award, the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Leadership Award and Voices for Georgia’s Children Big Voice. She has received the prestigious Dan Sweat Award from Central Atlanta Progress, Public Broadcasting Atlanta’s Sullivan Award, and was honored with The United Way of Greater Atlanta Women’s Leadership Award. She has participated in Leadership Atlanta, Leadership Georgia, Regional Leadership Institute, is a member of Outstanding Atlanta, and is past president of the Junior League of Atlanta. She received the Woodruff Arts Center “Arts in Education” honor and the Communities In Schools Georgia “Lifetime Friend to Education” award.