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Anita L. DeFrantzPresident, LA84 Foundation, Kids in Sports

Born October 4, 1952, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Anita Lucette DeFrantz is president and a director of the LA84 Foundation (formerly the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles), a private foundation seeded by the $93 million surplus of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. LA84 provides grants for Southern California youth sports organizations and maintains the largest sports library in North America. She is also president and director of Kids in Sports, Los Angeles, a non-profit public charity created in 1994 to foster youth in sports and to educate the volunteers and coaches ...

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