Executive Director, OutFront Minnesota

Ann Marie DeGroot
Major(s): Women's Studies and Sociology
Current Job Title: Executive Director
Organization: OutFront Minnesota

Brief description of your job:
Chief Executive Officer responsible for planning, development, operations, communications and community relations for Minnesota's leading gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender organization.

Other job titles you have held:
Co-Chair, Twin Cities Women for Take Back the Night

How have you found these positions?
I have been in the right place at the right time.

What skills from your degree do you use in your current work?
Political and social analysis, critical thinking, writing skills, statistical analysis

What advice do you have for current students?
The most important thing you learn in college is how to think. Not what to think but how. Use your time in liberal arts to experience everything of interest to you and also, to go outside of what might be your "norm" to try new things.