Welcome Ann Tropea, Assistant Director

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:39:15 -0400

We are delighted to share that Ann Tropea, Esq. (she/her) joined the UMBC community today as Assistant Director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Life. Ann will serve as the principal advisor to The Retriever and support the Center’s civic education and engagement initiatives.

Ann brings many years of professional editorial, communications, and legal expertise to her position. She is a published author, experienced public speaker and interviewer, and podcast co-host. Most recently, Ann served as the editor-in-chief of Seapower magazine, the flagship publication of the Navy League of the United States. She is also the former communications director at Career Valet, a woman-owned professional services firm. A licensed attorney in Louisiana and the District of Columbia, Ann has represented a variety of individual and multinational clients in both federal and state court litigation. Her additional writing and publishing experiences include: managing editor and food & lifestyle writer for online news website TheLatest; editor and publisher of a community cookbook for the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem; managing editor of the Law Journal for the Loyola University Chicago School of Law; editor-in-chief of New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication magazine Medium Cool, and associate publisher and nightlife editor for New York City’s GO Magazine.

Ann holds a law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and graduated magna cum laude in mass media communication studies from New York University. She is proficient in French and approaching proficiency in Italian. Ann currently lives in the Hamilton neighborhood of Baltimore City with her husband, two children, and rescue dog.

Please join us in welcoming Ann to UMBC and to the Center for Democracy and Civic Life staff team. You can reach her by email at atropea@umbc.edu.