Annmarie Levins is the General Manager for Microsoft’s Technology & Civic Engagement efforts. She is based in Cambridge, MA, where she founded Microsoft’s Innovation & Policy Center – New England. She leads teams across the US to bring Microsoft people and technology to help communities address their most pressing challenges, including economic growth and development, access and inequality, and building smart, sustainable cities. Her team works in partnership with cities, non-profits, academics, start-ups, and other companies to help to solve these challenges. Prior to taking on this role, Annmarie was the Associate General Counsel managing legal support for Microsoft’s North American subsidiaries. She joined Microsoft in 1998, after clerking for Judge James L. Oakes on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Lewis F. Powell on the US Supreme Court, serving as an Assistant US Attorney in New York and Seattle, and teaching at the University of Washington Law School.
Annmarie holds a BA from Brown University, a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, and a JD from the University of Maine.
cities
How City Programs Can Broaden Access to the Innovation Economy
A wide range of programs for entrepreneurship, training, and mentoring are emerging in cities around the United States. They hope to revitalize historically disadvantaged communities, broaden economic opportunity, and make cities better places. It's a 21st century brand of governance, politics, and civic engagement.
Get Engaged! Our Technologized Civic Life
Session Description: Social networks, both digital and physical, and a sense of civic duty, are bringing community back to the neighborhood, driving positive social, business and political change. How is this power of the collective fueling our reawakening American cities? Why are our biggest tech companies so fascinated with civic life? And what motivates people […]
Conferences
Detroit 15
The impact of tech on the American economy, its cities and the transformation of the urban ecosystem shaped the agenda for our fourth annual one-day Techonomy Detroit conference.
