Ann Herbst is the Executive Director of Young People in Recovery (YPR), a national, peer-led organization serving youth and young adults in recovery from substance use disorder. She is a former director of distinguished events for the American Cancer Society in New York City and major gift officer for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, an educational nonprofit in Princeton, NJ. A former children’s health editor at McCall’s magazine, she is the author under her maiden name of a non-fiction book, “Willie: Raising and Loving a Child with Attention Deficit Disorder” (Viking/Penguin) which was the subject of a “Spirit” section profile on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Her freelance articles on parenting, health, and psychology have appeared in Marie Claire, Self, Parents, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and New York magazine, among others. She is the development chair on the Board of the Railroad Street Youth Project in Great Barrington, MA and an emerita Board member of Jacob’s Pillow Dance in Becket, MA. She is a graduate cum laude of Harvard University and is currently enrolled in the Executive MBA program at Yale’s School of Management with an anticipated graduation date of May 2026. Her hobbies are CrossFit and travel.