Elizabeth Rosenstiel Kabler

Elizabeth Kabler was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, and maintains residences in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut. She is a graduate of the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and Bennett College in Millbrook, New York. She is the daughter of the late Leonore Annenberg, the former U.S. Chief of Protocol for President Ronald Reagan and the stepdaughter of the late Walter Annenberg. Her father was Lewis S. Rosenstiel, founder of Schenley Products Company, the predecessor of Schenley Distillers Corporation. Mrs. Kabler is vice president of the Rosenstiel Foundation and is a Fellow at the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center at Brandeis University. She lends philanthropic support of marine biology studies at University of Miami, where her father founded Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Mrs. Kabler is a board member of the World Policy Institute and the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD). Her philanthropic interests include support for the problems of adolescence, especially addiction and eating disorders. In 2008, she launched The New York Center for Living, a licensed after-school rehabilitation center focusing on adolescent substance abuse. She served as a board member for more than ten years at the Chapin School, but resigned to devote her efforts to The New York Center for Living. She is a strong supporter of both the arts and the sciences through the Rosenstiel Foundation. She serves on the drawing and photography committees of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Mrs. Kabler is a member of the chairman’s council at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a board member of the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE). One of Mrs. Kabler’s great passions is the theater. She is a member of the American Theater Wing, a Tony Voter, and has produced Off-Broadway shows. The Rosenstiel Foundation, in collaboration with the Directors Company, has produced two successful plays – Goodwill (an adaptation of a Jane Smiley novella) starring Dana Reeve, and The Passion of Frieda Kahlo starring Priscilla Lopez. Mrs. Kabler has a daughter, Liz Kabler Sorensen, son-in-law, Johan Sorensen, and three grandchildren.