Anna Solomon
Anna Solomon (she/her) is a business strategist with over a decade of experience helping creative businesses grow. She specializes in guiding organizations to navigate and scale innovative ideas and initiatives. As the Service Development Director at NextFab, a makerspace in Philadelphia, Anna spearheaded the launch of the sales department, expanding products and services, and designing programs from small-scale workshops to day-long hack-a-thons. Most notably, she co-founded Tools of the Trades in 2021, a pivotal program that has connected over 600 creative businesses with nearly 60 resource organizations. Anna received the 2025 Creative Economies Citizen Award for her work in creative advocacy and program development from the Philadelphia Department of Commerce.