Strategic Consultant

Ana Soule

Ana Soule is a Strategic Consultant focused on public-private partnerships and other cross sectoral solutions. She helps Fortif’s clients build impact strategies, leverage funding, and spur economic development.

An innovator at heart, Ana has a proven track record of taking ideas from concept to implementation. She has been a hands-on-contributor at a high-growth startup and a corporate innovation team where she developed her passion for using entrepreneurship as a vehicle for economic impact.

As a founding member of Landing’s Social Impact team, Ana built Homes For Healing, a signature philanthropic program that provides free housing to families traveling for care, from the ground up. She enjoys working across the full innovation cycle and aligning internal teams and external partners around a shared vision. 

Prior to joining Landing, Ana supported strategic partnerships and policy recommendations to improve broadband access across the state of Alabama with utility communication infrastructure. She enjoys bringing innovative solutions to large, highly regulated industries and partners to maximize impact and transformation.

Ana graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in Economics and Public Policy. She gained recognition on campus as an entrepreneurial leader with her social venture, Phoenyx, a recycled fashion company. Soule moved to Birmingham as a Venture for America fellow in 2019 and served as the City Lead for the program. Ana cares deeply about job access, digital inclusion, and economic mobility in the American South.

In her free time, she enjoys exploring the Alabama outdoors, reading, and cooking with loved ones.

“I love bringing ideas to life. Whether that’s forming a new partnership, drafting program materials, or securing funding for an initiative, I enjoy helping Fortif’s clients unlock resources to drive innovation.”

Education

  • The University of North Carolina, B.A. in Economics and Public Policy, 2019

Community Involvement

  • Venture for America Fellow, 2019
  • Rotaract Club of Birmingham, 2022 Leadership Development Program, 2021 Ready-to-Read Chair
  • Prosper Birmingham, Community Connectors Advisory Board Member

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