President & Founder, STEM Advantage
Previously with Ernst & Young (EY)
Lee Ann Kline, President and Founder of STEM Advantage, serves as our volunteer Executive Director and Chief Program Officer. Lee Ann left her corporate role at EY in October 2020 to focus on STEM Advantage full-time. Lee Ann began her career as a programmer at IBM. As a Mathematics and Computer Science major with an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, she was keenly aware of the lack of women in her field and the need for role models. As her career progressed and she became a consultant, she observed firsthand the lack of gender and racial diversity in the technology organizations she served. See something. Do something. Inspired to create change, Lee Ann leveraged her network to create STEM Advantage in 2012. Her honors include Los Angeles Business Journal Nonprofit Executive of the Year (Growing category), Certificate of Congressional Recognition, AARP Purpose Prize Fellow, EY Better Begins With You global winner for Strengthening Our Communities, and Orange County Business Journal Women in STEM.