By Derek D. Tircuit (Dtircuit) on Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 08:03 pm:

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in Pasadena, Cal., and is the daughter of the late James Roosevelt, the eldest son of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Art, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a MS in Library Science. After graduating, Roosevelt moved to Kentucky, where she joined the faculty of Western Kentucky University. There, she taught museum studies and worked on the staff of The Kentucky Museum for almost eight years. In 1983, she moved to Chicago as a freelance consultant. She was later named the first director of the Center for Scandinavian Studies in Chicago.
In 1987, Roosevelt refocused her efforts to pursue her lifelong interest in politics, working for the Democratic National Committee. She moved on to manage Senator Paul Simon's Chicago office and his 1990 reelection campaign. The following year, Roosevelt was a consultant for the "Daley for Mayor" campaign. And in 1991, she became the first executive director of the Museums in the Park, an organization representing the political interests of the nine museums located on Chicago Park District land. From 1996 through 1998, she served as the director of the Mayor's Office of Program Development for the City of Chicago, and in January 1998 she began as executive director of the Brain Research Foundation, an affiliate of The University of Chicago.
Roosevelt is a member of the Board of Trustees for the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. She serves on the boards of the Old Town School of Folk Music, the Cardinal Bernardin Center at the Catholic Theological Union, and the Alder Planetarium, and is a member of the Chicago Sister Cities Casablanca Committee. She is chairman of the board of the Roosevelt Warm Springs Foundation, chair of the advisory committee for the Center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt University, and president of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in New York.

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